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  • Welcome to Garden!
  • 🌸Overview
    • How Garden Works
    • Core Concepts
    • Adopting Garden
    • Garden vs Other Tools
  • 🌳Use Cases
    • Isolated On-Demand Preview Environments
    • Fast, Portable CI Pipelines that Run Anywhere
    • Shift Testing Left
    • Local Development With Remote Clusters
    • Jumpstart your Internal Developer Platform
  • 🌻Getting Started
    • Quickstart Guide
    • Installing Garden
    • Next Steps
  • 💐Tutorials
    • Your First Project
      • 1. Create a Garden Project
      • 2. Pick a Kubernetes Plugin
      • 3. Add Actions
      • 4. Add Tests
      • 5. Code Syncing (Hot Reload)
      • 6. Next Steps
  • 🌿Using Garden
    • About
    • Configuration Overview
    • Projects
    • Dashboard
    • Actions
    • Tests
    • Runs
    • Workflows
    • Variables and templating
    • Config Templates
    • Using the CLI
    • Modules
  • Kubernetes Plugins
    • About
    • Remote K8s Plugin Configuration
      • 1. Create a Cluster
        • AWS
        • GCP
        • Azure
      • 2. Configure Container Registry
        • AWS
        • GCP
        • Azure
        • Docker Hub
      • 3. Set Up Ingress, TLS and DNS
      • 4. Configure the Provider
    • Local K8s Plugin Configuration
      • 1. Install Local Kubernetes
      • 2. Configure the Provider
    • Ephemeral K8s Plugin Configuration
      • 1. Configure the Provider
      • 2. Login to the Garden dashboard
      • 3. Configure Ingress (optional)
      • 4. Retrieve Kubeconfig (optional)
    • Actions
      • Build
        • Container
      • Deploy
        • Kubernetes
        • Helm
        • Container
        • PersistentVolumeClaim
        • ConfigMap
      • Run and Test
        • Kubernetes Pod
        • Helm Pod
        • Kubernetes Exec
        • Container
    • Guides
      • In-Cluster Building
      • Minimal RBAC Configuration for Development Clusters
      • Deploying to Production
      • Using a Registry Mirror
  • ☘️Terraform Plugin
    • About
    • Plugin Configuration
    • Actions
  • 🌹Pulumi Plugin
    • About
    • Plugin Configuration
    • Actions
  • 🌼Other Plugins
    • Container
    • Exec (local scripts)
  • 🌷Guides
    • Migrating to Bonsai
    • Migrating from Docker Compose to Garden
    • Deprecations and updating to Cedar
    • Code Synchronization
    • Connecting a local application to a Kubernetes cluster (Local Mode)
    • Environments and namespaces
    • Using Garden in CircleCI
  • 🪷Advanced
    • Using Remote Sources
    • Custom Commands
  • 🎋Reference
    • Providers
      • conftest-container
      • conftest-kubernetes
      • conftest
      • container
      • ephemeral-kubernetes
      • exec
      • hadolint
      • jib
      • kubernetes
      • local-kubernetes
      • octant
      • otel-collector
      • pulumi
      • terraform
    • Action Types
      • Build
        • container Build
        • exec Build
        • jib-container Build
      • Deploy
        • configmap Deploy
        • container Deploy
        • exec Deploy
        • helm Deploy
        • kubernetes Deploy
        • persistentvolumeclaim Deploy
        • pulumi Deploy
        • terraform Deploy
      • Run
        • container Run
        • exec Run
        • helm-pod Run
        • kubernetes-exec Run
        • kubernetes-pod Run
      • Test
        • conftest-helm Test
        • conftest Test
        • container Test
        • exec Test
        • hadolint Test
        • helm-pod Test
        • kubernetes-exec Test
        • kubernetes-pod Test
    • Template Strings
      • Project template context
      • Environment template context
      • Provider template context
      • Action (all fields) template context
      • Action spec template context
      • Module template context
      • Remote Source template context
      • Project Output template context
      • Custom Command template context
      • Workflow template context
      • Template Helper Functions
    • Commands
    • Project Configuration
    • ConfigTemplate Reference
    • RenderTemplate Reference
    • Workflow Configuration
    • Garden Containers on Docker Hub
    • Module Template Configuration
    • Module Types
      • configmap
      • conftest
      • container
      • exec
      • hadolint
      • helm
      • jib-container
      • kubernetes
      • persistentvolumeclaim
      • pulumi
      • templated
      • terraform
  • 🌸Misc
    • FAQ
    • Troubleshooting
    • Telemetry
    • New Garden Cloud Version
  • Contributing to Garden
    • Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
    • Contributing to the Docs
    • Setting up your developer environment
    • Developing Garden
    • Config resolution
    • Graph execution
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Welcome to Garden!

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

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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.

You can get started in minutes with the new ! 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 and/or file an issue on . We're more than happy to help!

Overview

Getting Started

Using Garden

Garden dashboard
join our Discord community
our GitHub repo

How Garden Works

A quick introduction to the how and why of Garden

Garden vs Other Tools

The cloud native tooling space is complex—learn where Garden fits in

Adopting Garden

A high level overview of how teams typically adopt and roll out Garden

Quickstart

Get started with Garden in less than 5 minutes using our example project

"First Project" Tutorial

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

Next Steps

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

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