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title: "API V2"
linkTitle: "API V2"
weight: 30
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Skaffold exposes an API for retrieving information about the state of the process and to provide fine-grained control over the execution. 
For a detailed description of the [Skaffold API]({{<relref "/docs/design/api" >}}). 

The same API is exposed two ways, through gRPC and HTTP, for which the generated reference can be found below:      

* [gRPC API]({{< relref "/docs/references/api-v2/grpc" >}}) 
* [HTTP API]({{< relref "/docs/references/api-v2/swagger" >}}) 
