# Garden

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/garden-io/  
**Website:** https://garden.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

Garden is an open-source Kubernetes-native development and CI/CD platform. Garden Core, a declarative CLI and engine, models a project as a graph of Build, Deploy, Test, and Run actions powered by pluggable providers (kubernetes, local-kubernetes, container, exec, jib, helm, terraform, pulumi). Garden Cloud / Garden Enterprise add a hosted control plane for remote container builds, ephemeral preview environments, team dashboards, team-wide caching, secrets, RBAC, audit, and SSO. The CLI integrates with any CI system and IDE; teams use Garden to standardize how dev, preview, staging, and prod environments are built and deployed.

## Kin Score — 22.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (9)

- **Garden Core CLI** — Open-source command-line tool and engine that turns a Garden project configuration into a graph of Build, Deploy, Test, and Run actions and executes them locally or against remo...
- **Garden Kubernetes Provider** — Provider that connects Garden to remote Kubernetes clusters for builds (in-cluster), deploys (manifests, kustomize, helm), tests, and runs. The primary integration surface for p...
- **Garden Local Kubernetes Provider** — Provider optimized for local Kubernetes distributions (minikube, kind, k3s, Docker Desktop) so developers can run the same Garden project against a workstation cluster.
- **Garden Container Provider** — Provider for building, tagging, and publishing OCI container images used by other Garden actions.
- **Garden Exec Provider** — Provider that runs arbitrary local commands as part of the Garden action graph, used for scripts, tooling, and shelling out to systems Garden does not natively model.
- **Garden Jib Provider** — Provider that builds Java container images using Jib without a Docker daemon, integrated into the Garden action graph.
- **Garden Terraform Provider** — Provider that lets Garden invoke Terraform stacks as part of an environment, wiring outputs into downstream Garden actions.
- **Garden Pulumi Provider** — Provider that lets Garden invoke Pulumi programs as part of an environment, wiring outputs into downstream Garden actions.
- **Garden Cloud / Enterprise** — Hosted Garden control plane providing remote container builds, ephemeral preview environments, team-wide caching, secrets management, RBAC, SSO, audit logging, and dashboards on...

## Security (1)

- **Garden Io Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Garden Io Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Kubernetes, Developer Tools, CI/CD, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Preview Environments

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/garden-io/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.