Garden

Garden.io is a platform designed to streamline cloud-native application development and testing, particularly for Kubernetes environments. Founded in 2018, Garden.io offers a graph-based framework that automates builds, deployments, and tests throughout the delivery cycle. The platform's core technology is the Stack Graph, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) that compiles YAML declarations into a comprehensive description of an application stack, capturing relationships between components. This allows developers to spin up production-like, full-stack environments on-demand for coding and testing, ensuring consistency across development and CI/CD processes.

Garden.io's approach aims to address common challenges in cloud development, such as discrepancies between development and CI environments, slow integration testing, and inefficient use of developer time. The platform enables developers to run the same integration tests during development that will run in CI, potentially reducing errors and improving productivity. Garden.io works with Kubernetes, containers, and other cloud infrastructure via Terraform and Pulumi integrations. The company has expanded its focus beyond Kubernetes to include serverless platforms and integrations with DevSecOps solutions.

Key customers and partnerships

Garden.io's customer base spans various industries, with 80% of its business in the US as of March 2022. Notable customers include Gusto, a payroll technology company; Reprise, a sales demo vendor; OakNorth, a UK bank; and Luminovo.ai, a German electronics technology vendor. Additionally, InfluxData has integrated Garden.io into its cloud-native development environment, using it to manage the inner loop of their development process and deploy code changes in remote clusters.