---------------------- Yes, Garden provides a way to manage and operate subsets of services similar to "profiles" in Docker Compose. This is achieved through the use of Garden's configuration files and custom commands. In Garden, each service is defined in a configuration file (e.g.,

*.garden.yml

). You can specify dependencies between services, allowing you to control the order in which services are started. For example, in the

frontend/frontend.garden.yml

file, the

backend

deployment is specified as a dependency, which makes the database (

mongo

) an indirect dependency. This means that when you start the

frontend

service, the

backend

and

mongo

services will also be started if they are not already running.

yaml
kind: Deploy
apiVersion: garden.io/v1
name: frontend
description: The frontend server and UI components container
type: container
dependencies:
 - build.frontend
 - deploy.backend
spec:
 image: ${actions.build.frontend.outputs.deploymentImageId}
 env:
 DANGEROUSLY_DISABLE_HOST_CHECK: true
 sync:
 paths:
 - source: ./src
 target: /usr/src/app/src
 mode: "one-way-replica"
 ports:
 - name: http
 containerPort: 3000
 healthCheck:
 httpGet:
 path: /
 port: http
 ingresses:
 - path: /
 port: http

Source () Additionally, you can define custom commands in Garden, which can be used to start a specific subset of services. Custom commands are defined in a Garden project and can include any number of actions, such as starting specific services, running tests, or deploying infrastructure. These commands can be run using the

garden

CLI, making it easy to start a specific subset of services.

yaml
kind: Command
name: api-dev
description:
 short: Start garden with preconfigured options for API development
exec:
 command:
 - sh
 - -c
 - git submodule update --recursive --remote # Because we keep forgetting to update these, amirite?
gardenCommand:
 - deploy
 - --sync
 - api,worker
 - --log-level
 - debug
 - $concat: ${args.$all} # Allow any arguments/options on top of the fixed ones above

Source () In this example, the

api-dev

command starts the

api

and

worker

services. You can define similar commands for other subsets of services in your monorepo. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ----------------------