While exploring tooling for Kubernetes I had need for schemas to describe the definition files, and went looking for something that didn't require either kubectl or similar installed or even a working Kubernetes installation.

It turns out that the OpenAPI specification contain this information, but not in a particularly usable format for tools which might just want a raw JSON Schema.

This repository contains a set of schemas for most recent Kubernetes versions. For each specified Kubernetes versions you should find four different flavours:

vX.Y.Z - URL referenced based on the specified GitHub repository
vX.Y.Z-standalone - de-referenced schemas, more useful as standalone documents
vX.Y.Z-local - relative references, useful to avoid the network dependency
vX.Y.Z-strict - prohibits properties not defined in the schema

Note that the Kubernetes API allows additional properties to be submitted, but kubectl acts like the strict flavour above.