We did indeed have a reputation for being a bit more complicated then some of the other tools out there (and in turn more flexible). But we've put enormous effort into simplifying Garden itself and also improving documentation.
If you already have your stack containerised you should be good to go but experience with Kubernetes is definitely a plus. Most of our users use K8s in production and use Garden for developing and testing in production-like environments in "inner loop" dev and CI.
We did indeed have a reputation for being a bit more complicated then some of the other tools out there (and in turn more flexible). But we've put enormous effort into simplifying Garden itself and also improving documentation.
If you already have your stack containerised you should be good to go but experience with Kubernetes is definitely a plus. Most of our users use K8s in production and use Garden for developing and testing in production-like environments in "inner loop" dev and CI.
You can check out our quickstart guide, it can get you up and running in a few minutes: https://docs.garden.io/getting-started/quickstart
We're also always happy to help on Discord if you have questions: https://discord.gg/FrmhuUjFs6