Garden vs Shipwright
Garden
garden.ioShipwright
shipwright.ioSide by side
| Figure | Garden | Shipwright |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $50/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · Container Build Tools | 9.1 (#3) | 7.1 (#29) |
| Integrations | Garden provides plugins for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi and local scripts. | Installation requires Kubernetes 1.32 or later and Tekton Pipelines v0.68 or later. |
| Purpose | Garden is a DevOps automation tool for developing and testing Kubernetes apps faster. | Shipwright is an extensible framework for building container images on Kubernetes. |
| Support | Garden directs users to Garden Discussions and its GitHub repository for help and issue reporting. | The project lists a user mailing list, developer mailing list, and Kubernetes Slack as community channels. |
| What it does | Garden automates development and testing workflows for Kubernetes and other cloud-native applications. | Shipwright is an extensible framework for building container images on Kubernetes. |
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In their own words
Garden
Garden is a DevOps automation tool for developing and testing Kubernetes applications. It creates production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand, then represents infrastructure, builds, services, and tests in a dependency-aware action graph. Graph-aware caching avoids rerunning unchanged images and tests. Garden Core uses YAML declarations to make workflows reproducible across developer machines and CI, and sync mode live-syncs changes to running deployments. Plugins cover Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi, and local scripts. Its Terraform provider validates and provisions infrastructure and exposes stack outputs to Garden actions; the Pulumi plugin is experimental and deploys stacks in dependency order. Garden Cloud's Remote Container Builder uses managed remote compute and shared Docker layer caches. Garden supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted use. It requires Git 2.14 or newer, and local service builds need a local Kubernetes installation. The free tier has limits on build minutes, cache hits, and cache retention. Enterprise is a self-hosted Garden Cloud distribution installed into a customer's Kubernetes infrastructure.
Shipwright
Shipwright has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.