# Welcome to Garden!

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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 checkout [Garden Discussions](https://github.com/garden-io/garden/discussions) and/or file an issue on [our GitHub repo](https://github.com/garden-io/garden). We're more than happy to help!

#### Overview

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>What is Garden</strong></td><td>A quick introduction to the how and why of Garden</td><td><a href="overview/what-is-garden">what-is-garden</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Use Cases</strong></td><td>A look at the most common Garden use cases</td><td><a href="overview/use-cases">use-cases</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Garden vs Other Tools</strong></td><td>The cloud native tooling space is complex—learn where Garden fits in</td><td><a href="overview/garden-vs-other-tools">garden-vs-other-tools</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Getting Started

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Quickstart</strong></td><td>Get started with Garden in less than 5 minutes using our example project</td><td><a href="getting-started/quickstart">quickstart</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Basics</strong></td><td>A quick introduction to Garden basics</td><td><a href="tutorials/your-first-project">your-first-project</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Next Steps</strong></td><td>Once you've kicked the tires with our quickstart example, come here to learn how to add Garden to your own project</td><td><a href="getting-started/next-steps">next-steps</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Using Garden

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Variables and templating</strong></td><td>An introduction to Garden's powerful templating functionality</td><td><a href="features/variables-and-templating">variables-and-templating</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Kubernetes</strong></td><td>Learn how to use Garden to build, deploy, and test your K8s apps</td><td><a href="using-garden-with/kubernetes">kubernetes</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Reference docs</strong></td><td>The pages in this section container reference docs for different plugins and actions types</td><td><a href="reference/providers">providers</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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