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Garden.io: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Garden is a DevOps automation tool for developing and testing Kubernetes applications. It spins up production-like environments on demand for development, testing and CI, uses the same configuration across all stages of software delivery, and speeds up builds and tests through caching. Configuration lives in garden.yml files, and Garden runs as a standalone program. Kubernetes is the most widely used plugin, followed by Terraform and Pulumi. There is an open-source core and, alongside it, a commercial cloud service called Garden Cloud.

Garden was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin. Since November 2024 the company has been owned by Incredibuild, an Israeli company. The Garden core is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, so you can run the tool yourself in your own CI and Kubernetes clusters. For a European organisation the relevant point is then that the tool does not need to send data elsewhere; for Garden Cloud, the hosting location and the ownership structure of the parent company should be assessed separately.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
ILVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
DevOps
Type
Product
Website
garden.io ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Garden.io

The European alternatives to Garden.io come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Garden.io

Garden.io is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in IL. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Garden.io scores best on data residency.

Garden.io is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Garden.io together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Garden.io?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Garden.io include Codefresh, Spacelift and Tekton. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Garden.io?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Garden.io include Tekton, Woodpecker CI, PostgreSQL (self-host), Prometheus, Radicle and Statping-ng (self-host). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Garden.io GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Garden.io is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Garden.io an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in DevOps

DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, container registries. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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