Welcome to Garden!

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

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.

You can get started in minutes with the new Garden Web Dashboard! Just click the link and follow the interactive guide to deploy your first example project with Garden.

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

How Garden Works

A quick introduction to the how and why of Garden

Use Cases

Learn how teams use Garden in the real world to deliver cloud native apps faster

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

Adopting Garden

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

"First Project" Tutorial

This tutorial walks through the step-by-step process of configuring your first Garden project

Using Garden

Configuration Overview

An introduction to how Garden projects are configured

Kubernetes Plugins

Most users come to Garden for our K8s plugins, here you learn how to set them up

Reference docs

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