There is https://www.nomadproject.io/ by HashiCorp that doing the same as kubernates and quite often used for smaller projects, but I could not find if its possible to use it with garden. I'm totally new to kubernates and garden, but found that nomad is easier to get onboard with clusters.

Hi @refined-ghost-4478, welcome to our Discord! Unfortunately no, as of today it's not possible to use Garden with Nomad. Having said that, I am not saying we wouldn't be open to support other non-kubernetes container orchestrators if there is demand from the community, and I would encourage you to open a feature request on out GitHub repo. 🙏 But for now, unfortunately it's not in our roadmap. As a side note, I'd suggest you to take a look at our [Getting Started guide](https://docs.garden.io/getting-started/quickstart), if you haven't already. Kubernetes + Garden might be daunting but we try to make the experience as easy as possible. 🙂 And feel free to post feedback or other questions if you bump into anything that doesn't feel right or it's complicated. Happy to help!

i decided to give a try for k0s and looks like it may work

Hi @refined-ghost-4478, Garden doesn't really care about the K8s distribution as soon as it's a standard one. If you are using

k0s

locally and the credentials are in your context file, you can just specify it in the provider configuration (see here: https://docs.garden.io/kubernetes-plugins/local-k8s/configure-provider). If you are using a remote cluster, the same but you might want to configure additional settings (like an image registry, etc.), see this step of the remote Kubernetes Configuration guide: https://docs.garden.io/kubernetes-plugins/remote-k8s/configure-provider

@chilly-gigabyte-83853 yeah, thing is - for our needs Podman + pod file (pretty much docker-compose analogue in that setup) is more than enough. What i was trying - find something dead simple on top of Podman as minimal as possible, we need just containers pretty much, but many. Nats.io would be used as central system that can easily to scale. And sadly I still cant find anything that would bring dev and prod very close to with nice DEX. I like garden for onboarding simplicity, but will not be possible to push for kubernated in any edition just for that 😦

I see what you mean. Unfortunately Podman is not supported yet, but I'd suggest to watch this space. 🙂 I don't want to make any promise yet but we have been tinkering outside of Kubernetes and exploring different solutions. But until something new comes out, I am not sure then Garden is the right choice for your specific use case. 😢 Good luck!