👋 Welcome to the official GitHub organization of the Gardener Project. We are an open-source project that brings homogeneous Kubernetes-clusters-as-a-Service to multi-cloud environments. Our mission is to provide robust, scalable, and efficient Kubernetes clusters using hosted control planes.

Gardener is a Kubernetes extension that implements automated system management. It provides a lean, extensible, and multi-cloud capable API server that integrates existing cloud providers and open-source cloud computing libraries. Gardener is designed to support scalability and resilience for large-scale systems, and it's capable of managing thousands of Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, AliCloud, and more).

Enter the free demo playground environment and explore Gardener yourself!

Gardener has been donated to the NeoNephos Foundation, a Linux Foundation initiative dedicated to advancing open-source projects that align with the strategic objectives of Important Project of Common European Interest - Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures and Services (IPCEI-CIS) under neutral governance. Learn more about NeoNephos and our role within it here.

ApeiroRA is a reference blueprint for an open, flexible, secure, and compliant next-generation cloud-edge continuum - and therefore a key contribution to IPCEI-CIS. At a high level, the projects of ApeiroRA allow users to provider-agnostically fetch, request and consume services, and for service providers to describe, offer and provision their services. By being open source, ApeiroRA provides a cross-border spillover effect, solidifying the foundation and future of the project. Learn more about ApeiroRA by checking out the official website.

• Multi-Cloud: Gardener supports a wide range of cloud providers, allowing you to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across different cloud environments.
• Automated Operations: Gardener automates many of the day-to-day tasks involved in managing Kubernetes clusters, such as updates, backups, and scaling.
• Extensibility: Gardener is designed to be extensible, allowing you to add support for new infrastructure providers, operating systems, networking plugins, and more.
• Secure and Compliant: Gardener ensures that the Kubernetes clusters are secure and compliant with the necessary standards.
• Conformance: All Kubernetes clusters managed by Gardener are conformant as per the CNCF's conformance tests.
• Open-Source: Gardener is completely open-source. We welcome contributions from the community and believe in the power of collaborative development.

We welcome contributions of all kinds, from code to documentation, testing, and design. If you're interested in getting involved, check out our contribution guidelines and our open issues.

To learn more about Gardener, visit our official website at https://gardener.cloud. We provide a free demo playground to provide you with a hands-on experience of Gardener. You can also find our documentation here and can reach out to us via Slack (join the workspace here).