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Garden

Automation platform for Kubernetes development and testing

Developer Tools & Git ★ 3.6k stars Medium setup MPL-2.0

Garden is an open-source automation platform that speeds up building, testing, and developing applications on Kubernetes. It caches results and provides preview environments for self-hosted clusters.

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Key features

  • Kubernetes dev workflows
  • Smart test caching
  • Preview environments
  • Multi-service builds

Strengths

  • Released under the MPL-2.0 license
  • Active community (3.6k GitHub stars)
  • Written in TypeScript

Is Garden secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Garden's latest release (0.14.20). OSV.dev lists 2 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2023-44392, published 2023-10-09 (1101 days ago), fixed in 0.12.65, 0.13.17

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Garden replaces

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