Welcome to Garden!

Garden is a DevOps automation tool for developing and testing Kubernetes apps faster

See here for the Garden 0.13 (Bonsai) docs.

Garden lets you spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. It enables teams to use the same configuration and workflows for every stage of software delivery—and dramatically speeds up builds and test runs via smart caching.

If there's something you can't find in our docs, we happily encourage you to join our Discord community and/or file an issue on our GitHub repo. We're more than happy to help!

Overview

What is Garden

A quick introduction to the how and why of Garden

Use Cases

A look at the most common Garden use cases

Garden vs Other Tools

The cloud native tooling space is complex—learn where Garden fits in

Getting Started

Quickstart

Get started with Garden in less than 5 minutes using our example project

Basics

A quick introduction to Garden basics

Next Steps

Once you've kicked the tires with our quickstart example, come here to learn how to add Garden to your own project

Using Garden

Variables and templating

An introduction to Garden's powerful templating functionality

Kubernetes

Learn how to use Garden to build, deploy, and test your K8s apps

Reference docs

The pages in this section container reference docs for different plugins and actions types