Preface

The Red Hat Quay application programming interface (API) provides a comprehensive, RESTful interface for managing and automating tasks within Red Hat Quay. Designed around the OAuth 2.0 protocol, this API enables secure, fine-grained access to Red Hat Quay resources, and allows administrators and users to perform such actions as creating repositories, managing images, setting permissions, and more.

Red Hat Quay follows Semantic Versioning (SemVer) principles, ensuring predictable API stability across releases, such as:

The following guide describes the Red Hat Quay API in more detail, and provides details on the following topics:

This guide is accompanied with a second guide, Red Hat Quay API reference, that provides information about all api/v1 endpoints and how to access those endpoints with example commands.