About Garden
Garden is a DevOps automation tool for developing and testing Kubernetes apps. It creates production-like environments for development, testing and CI on demand.
What it does
Garden uses one configuration for every stage of delivery, so the same workflow can run on a laptop and in a pipeline. Smart caching helps builds and test runs finish faster by reusing work that has not changed. It can work with containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi and local scripts, and it includes workflows and code synchronisation for quicker feedback during development.
Key features
- One configuration for every stage
- Caching that reuses unchanged work
- Works with containers and Kubernetes
- Code synchronisation for quicker feedback
- Workflows and custom commands
Who it's for
Platform engineers and developers who want realistic test environments without building them by hand. QA and CI teams who need the same setup across many branches will find it useful.
Pricing and good to know
Garden is open source under the MPL-2.0 licence and is free to use. The vendor also offers Garden Cloud, which is a separate hosted service. You still need a Kubernetes cluster to deploy to, and the documentation covers the minimal role-based access needed for development clusters.
Highlights
- One configuration for every stage
- Caching that reuses unchanged work
- Works with containers and Kubernetes
- Code synchronisation for quicker feedback
- Workflows and custom commands
