Deploying to Production

Depending on your setup and requirements, you may or may not want to use Garden to deploy to your production environment. In either case, if you do configure your production environment in your Garden project configuration, we highly recommend that you set the production flag on it.

This will protect against accidentally messing with your production environments, by prompting for confirmation before e.g. deploying or running tests in the environment.

The flag is also given to each provider, which may modify behavior accordingly. In particular, when used with the kubernetes provider, it will do the following:

1. Set the default number of replicas for container services to 3 (unless specified by the user).

2. Set a soft AntiAffinity setting on container deployments to try to schedule Pods in a single Deployment across many nodes.

3. Set a restricted securityContext for Pods (runAsUser: 1000, runAsGroup: 3000, fsGroup: 2000).

4. Increase the RevisionHistoryLimit on workloads to 10.

5. By default, running garden deploy --force will propagate the --force flag to helm upgrade, and set the --replace flag on helm install when deploying helm modules. This may be okay while developing but risky in production, so the production flag prevents both of those.

We would highly appreciate feedback on other configuration settings that should be altered when production: true. Please send us feedback via GitHub issues or reach out on our Discord Community!