garden

Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching (by garden-io)

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  • DevOps in 2025: the future is automated, git-ified, and kinda scary but fun.
    25 projects | dev.to | 9 May 2025
    Garden or Tilt for dev environments
  • Build pipelines always seem to take longer than doing the same locally
    1 project | /r/cicd | 9 Dec 2023
    Hey there! Have you tried garden.io for caching? We also cache tests. Pretty much anything that's possible to cache. We're open source at https://github.com/garden-io/garden
  • Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Code: A Developer's Guide
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2023
    To add to what's already been said: If you think about it, CI pipelines are typically a complete description of how your system is built, tested, and deployed.

    Which is pretty fantastic except for how walled off they are. You can't really re-use these descriptions for e.g. development, they're not vendor agnostic, and they only way to run them is by pushing your code.

    Maybe it's a silly analogy but it's almost like being a web dev that doesn't have a browser and needs to send their code to a friend who can tell them if that font size looks good.

    I think we're way over due for freeing these "blueprints" of our system from the confines of CI and making them portable and flexible. And containers are the technology that's enabling that.

    Full disclaimer (as always): I work at Garden[0] where we're also solving that problem but taking a slightly different approach to Dagger (it's still a DAG). Garden config is declarative and the jobs (we call them actions) have a semantic meaning. You can e.g. have a Build action of type container or a Deploy action of type Helm and Garden will figure out what to do with it.

    [0] https://github.com/garden-io/garden

  • GitHub Actions Are a Problem
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    Yes, there's us over at https://github.com/garden-io/garden! We're big believers in pipelines that run anywhere. I even made a short little video that should give you the gist. [1]

    Some of the short-list of differences: we use YAML for our configuration language, Dagger can use full-fat languages to define its pipelines. Our feature scope is broader: you can use us to vend IDP-like stacks to your developers if you're a Platform Team; we make development with remote Kubernetes clusters very easy, including all the remote image builds; and we have a number of integrations so you can bring your IaC tool of choice (Pulumi, Terraform) into your pipeline and set up service -> infra dependencies.

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnan6s2cDg

  • The Icelandic Saga Database
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    Me too. In fact Garden (dev tooling for the Kubernetes)[0] is a Berlin start-up with three Icelandic founders.

    And if I'm not mistaken, two of us worked briefly with @halldorel (above commenter) at an earlier Icelandic start-up. It's a small world (if you're Icelandic).

    [0] https://garden.io

  • Local development set up for microservices with Kubernetes - Skaffold
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 31 May 2023
    There are dedicated tools just for that. Apart from skaffold check also tilt.dev, garden.io, devspace.sh, okteto.com
  • is anyone using garden.io for Kubernetes development?
    1 project | /r/devops | 16 Mar 2023
    Would appreciate any insights on garden.io. Thanks.
  • Garden – The DevOps automation tool for K8s
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
  • Best way to run k8s apps locally
    2 projects | /r/devops | 28 Dec 2022
    Telepresence, tilt, garden.io, okteto, skaffold etc.
  • Local Development with hot reloading, what does your team do?
    7 projects | /r/kubernetes | 14 Dec 2022
    - https://garden.io/
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    www.influxdata.com | 19 Jul 2025
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The primary programming language of garden is TypeScript.


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