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Garden is ranked #5 of 39 in container development environments on Inferse. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Purpose
Garden is a DevOps automation tool for developing and testing Kubernetes apps faster.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Environments
Garden creates production-like environments for development, testing and CI on demand.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Stack graph
Garden models infrastructure, builds, services and tests as a dependency-aware action graph.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Caching
Garden uses graph-aware caching so unchanged images and tests do not run again.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Configuration
Garden Core uses YAML declarations to make workflows reproducible and portable across developer machines and CI.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Sync mode
Garden has a sync mode that live-syncs changes to running deployments for faster development feedback.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Remote builds
Garden Cloud's Remote Container Builder uses managed remote compute and shared Docker layer caches.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Integrations
Garden provides plugins for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi and local scripts.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Terraform
Garden's Terraform provider validates and provisions infrastructure and exposes stack outputs to Garden actions.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Pulumi
Garden includes an experimental Pulumi plugin that deploys Pulumi stacks in dependency order.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Requirements
Garden requires Git 2.14 or newer, and local service builds require a local Kubernetes installation.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Support
Garden directs users to Garden Discussions and its GitHub repository for help and issue reporting.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Security
A Garden community response states that the company is SOC 2 compliant and undergoes regular penetration testing.community.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Audience
Garden is intended for platform engineers, DevOps engineers and application developers running workloads on Kubernetes.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026
Enterprise deployment
Garden Enterprise is a self-hosted Garden Cloud distribution installed into a customer's Kubernetes infrastructure.enterprise-v1.docs.garden.io · 1 Oct 2026

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