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Garden is a DevOps automation platform designed to streamline the development, testing, and continuous integration (CI) of Kubernetes-based applications. It enables developers and teams to spin up production-like environments on demand, ensuring consistency across development, testing, and deployment stages. By using the same configuration and workflows throughout the software delivery lifecycle, Garden reduces environment drift and accelerates iteration cycles.

The tool leverages smart caching to dramatically speed up build and test runs, which helps teams avoid redundant work and reduces feedback loops. Garden supports complex Kubernetes setups and integrates with popular infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Pulumi, as well as container technologies. It also offers powerful templating and variable management features to customize deployments and workflows.

Garden is intended for infrastructure developers, DevOps engineers, and enterprise teams working with Kubernetes who want to automate and unify their development and testing environments. Getting started involves installing Garden, connecting it to your Kubernetes cluster, and defining your project configuration using Garden's declarative syntax. Comprehensive documentation and an active Discord community support onboarding and troubleshooting.

By providing a consistent, automated environment that mirrors production, Garden helps teams reduce bugs caused by environment inconsistencies and accelerates delivery velocity. Its caching and workflow automation features make it particularly useful for organizations with complex microservices architectures or those adopting GitOps practices.