---------------------- Yes, the Garden team does offer a Docker image that includes

kubectl

. The image is called

gardendev/garden-gcloud

and it extends the standard

gardendev/garden

image to bundle the

gcloud

binary (Google Cloud CLI) which includes

kubectl

. You can use this image in your CI pipelines, such as in CircleCI, to interact with your Kubernetes cluster. Here's an example of how you can use the

gardendev/garden-gcloud

image in a CircleCI job:

yaml
# .circleci/config
jobs:
 preview:
 docker:
 - image: gardendev/garden-gcloud:bonsai-alpine
 environment:
 GARDEN_LOG_LEVEL: verbose # set the log level to your preference here
 steps:
 - checkout
 - configure_kubectl_context
 - run:
 name: Test project
 command: garden test --env=preview
 - run:
 name: Deploy project
 command: garden deploy --env=preview

In this example, the

gardendev/garden-gcloud

image is used to run Garden commands against a Kubernetes cluster. The

kubectl

context is configured as a step in the job, allowing Garden to interact with the cluster. For more information, you can refer to the official Garden documentation on using Garden in CircleCI (). ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ----------------------

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---------------------- The

gardendev/garden-gcloud

image does include Docker, but it doesn't run the Docker daemon by default. This is why you're seeing an error about the Docker daemon not running when you try to run Docker commands. Starting the Docker daemon in a Docker container is a complex task and generally not recommended due to the security implications and the fact that it requires privileged access to the host. It's also worth noting that running Docker inside Docker (a.k.a. "DinD") can lead to some tricky issues. Instead, you might want to consider using the Docker socket from the host. This allows you to run Docker commands inside your container, but they're actually executed by the Docker daemon on the host. Here's an example of how you can do this in a Docker run command:

bash
docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -it gardendev/garden-gcloud:bonsai-alpine

In this command,

-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

mounts the Docker socket from the host into the container. However, please be aware that this approach essentially gives the container full control over your Docker daemon, which can have serious security implications. It's generally only recommended for trusted environments. If you're trying to build, tag, and push Docker images as part of your CI/CD pipeline, a better approach might be to use Garden's built-in functionality for this. For example, you can use the

garden publish

command to publish images that have been built in your cluster. You can find more information about this in the Garden documentation (). ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ----------------------

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---------------------- Yes, you're correct. When you use the

garden publish

command, Garden does pull the image from the remote registry to the local Docker daemon, and then pushes it from there. This is done to avoid having to re-implement all the various authentication methods involved in pushing directly from the cluster. It also provides a level of control and security, as it's often not desired to give clusters direct access to push to production registries. However, the difference lies in the fact that with Garden, you're not directly interacting with Docker or managing the Docker daemon yourself. Garden abstracts away these details, allowing you to focus on your application code and not the intricacies of image building and publishing. It also integrates these tasks into a streamlined development workflow, where building and publishing images is just one part of the process. If you're running this in a CI/CD pipeline, you would need to ensure that Docker is running in your CI/CD environment. If you're using the

gardendev/garden-gcloud

image in a Kubernetes-based CI/CD pipeline, you might need to use a sidecar container with Docker or a Docker-in-Docker setup, which can add complexity to your pipeline. For more information, you can refer to the Garden documentation on publishing images (). ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ----------------------

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