Score is an open-source, platform-agnostic workload specification developed under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox program. It provides a developer-centric YAML specification that enables teams to define application workloads once and deploy them across multiple container platforms including Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and cloud runtimes without environment-specific configuration drift.
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- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Native
- CNCF
- Workload Specification
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Developer Experience
- Open Source
- Created: 2026-05-02
- Modified: 2026-05-02
The Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that captures containers, service ports, and resource dependencies in a single file.
Human URL: https://score.dev/
- Platform Engineering
- Workload Specification
- Cloud Native
- CNCF
- Open Source
The reference Score implementation for Docker Compose. Translates score.yaml into docker-compose.yml for local development.
The reference Score implementation for Kubernetes. Translates score.yaml into Kubernetes manifests.
- Score Context — Linked data context mapping Score specification vocabulary to schema.org and OCI/CNCF terms.
- Basic Workload Example — Example score.yaml for a web service with database and cache resources.
- Compose Output Example — Example Docker Compose output generated by score-compose.
- Score Vocabulary — Domain vocabulary for Score specification concepts, platform engineering, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
FN: Kin Lane Email: kin@apievangelist.com