Garden vs Tokaido

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.

Tokaido is a free, open-source tool for creating local Drupal development environments with Docker and the `tok` command-line interface. Its containers can run PHP, Nginx, and MySQL, with optional services including Solr, Memcache, Mailhog, and Adminer. The `tok up` command starts an environment and sets up HTTPS. Project settings can be kept in `.tok/config.yml` in the Git repository, allowing teammates to share configuration. An SSH endpoint provides access to tools such as Drush, Composer, Gulp, Yarn, and Npm. Tokaido supports Linux, macOS, and Windows, though its Windows build is described as beta and experimental. Its local environment is ephemeral: the database resets on restart, and files outside `/tokaido/site` are lost. Drupal multisite is supported, but `tok snapshot` and `tok test` do not account for multisite databases. The project lists Drupal 7 or 8, PHP 7.1, and a Git repository as requirements. Tokaido was founded in 2016, is headquartered in Melbourne, and is primarily maintained by Ironstar.