Apicurio Registry
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Overview
A CNCF sandbox schema and API registry providing centralized management, storage, and evolution tracking for schemas and API contracts.
Key Features
Comprehensive format support: OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema, GraphQL.
Schema validation and compatibility rules preventing breaking changes in event streams.
Pluggable storage backends (PostgreSQL, Kafka Streams, In-Memory).
Integration with Kafka client serializers/deserializers (SerDes).
Use Cases
Managing schema evolution in event-driven Kafka architectures and governing enterprise API contracts.
Getting Started
Run via Docker: `docker run -it -p 8080:8080 apicurio/apicurio-registry-mem:latest`.
Recent Updates
Apicurio Registry 3.0 modernized UI and decoupled storage connector architecture.
Did You Know?
Apicurio Registry is widely utilized across the cloud native and open source ecosystem.