Garden is a DevOps platform that provides production-like environments for building, managing, and testing cloud-native applications using executable graphs of Dockerfiles and Helm charts. It enables developers to spin up entire systems on demand, significantly reducing debugging time and improving end-to-end testing speed by 80%.
Funding
$15.9M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Developing and testing cloud-native applications on Kubernetes often involves complex configurations and tooling, leading to inconsistencies between development, testing, and production environments. This complexity increases debugging time, slows down end-to-end testing, and requires significant investment in internal tooling.
Solution
Garden provides a DevOps automation platform that enables developers to build, manage, and test Kubernetes applications using a unified, executable graph. By creating production-like environments on demand, Garden allows developers to test features in isolation and ensures consistency across different stages of the development lifecycle. The platform automates dependency management, streamlines CI/CD pipelines, and provides real-time feedback, reducing bottlenecks and improving developer productivity. Garden's smart caching and incremental deployment capabilities further accelerate testing and reduce infrastructure costs.
Target Audience
Garden is designed for DevOps teams and developers working on cloud-native applications in Kubernetes environments, particularly those seeking to improve developer productivity, accelerate testing, and streamline CI/CD processes.
Features
- Executable graph representation of Dockerfiles, Helm charts, and other infrastructure-as-code configurations
- On-demand creation of production-like environments for development, testing, and QA
- Automated dependency management and smart caching for faster build and test cycles
- Unified configuration across development and CI/CD pipelines
- Real-time streaming logs for builds, deployments, and tests
- Support for Terraform, Pulumi, and other infrastructure provisioning tools
- Insights dashboard for identifying and resolving bottlenecks in development workflows