Randy loves dueling with computers and his career has spanned Apple ][ home automation, Unix/Linux kernel driver development, Windows, Drupal, and loads of fun system administration and DevOps work. After years of Drupal work he's delighted to be working on DDEV-Local, which provides an easy way to do web development locally.
DDEV-Local provides lots and lots of flexibility for you in managing your databases between your local development, staging and production environments. Most people know about ddev import-db and ddev export-db but those tools now have more flexibility and there are plenty of other adaptable ways to work with your databases. Remember, you can run ddev … Continued
Sometimes as the releases go by not everybody ends up noticing new features in DDEV-Local. People liked it the last time we did a “remember these simple new features” article, so here comes another one: Built-in docs: Never forget you can just type ddev (which shows all available commands) and ddev help <command>. Those are … Continued
Even though DDEV-Local is intended for local development on a single machine, not as a public server, there are a number of reasons you might want to expose your work in progress more broadly: Testing with a mobile device Sharing on a local network so that everybody on the local network can see your project … Continued
2019 was an amazing year for DDEV-Local thanks to all of your contributions, involvement and experience! DDEV-Local is open source so that we can work together to support a broad range of users using our local development environment across operating systems and PHP projects. We were proud to be able to support DDEV communities in … Continued
DDEV-Local’s first official third-party service was Apache Solr, and lots of people have used it successfully over the years. But I never actually took the time to explore what was going on, and to support people who are having trouble it’s best if you actually understand the context 🙂 Since I had to do a … Continued
DDEV-Local is a powerful local development tool that many of you are fond of for its simplicity and extensibility. Recent versions of DDEV-Local (v1.10+) add custom commands and loads of other goodies we’d like to show you how to use. In this screencast and tutorial, we’ll show you how to make use of DDEV-Local custom commands, … Continued
There’s never any end to the number of things you might need to do with the web container to make it “just right” for your project. In DDEV-Local v1.8.0 you can do that much more easily than in the past. Here are a couple of examples of how you might make these modifications, and a … Continued
Security is critical on the modern web, and so all sites should ideally be developed, tested, and deployed with https. But it has been hard to do that in your local development environment. With DDEV-Local you can use the https version of your project in a browser that trusts your project and you don’t have to … Continued
We’ve just released DDEV-Local v1.8.0! This release includes trusted SSL, refreshed ddev stop behavior, and updated ddev exec functionality. Install or upgrade now. Below are a couple of highlights, or you can read the full release notes here. Browsers and host OSs now trust ddev sites over https: After a one-time action to run mkcert … Continued
We’ve just released DDEV v1.7.1! This release includes the ability to override a committed config.yaml, static port binds and longer project names. Install or upgrade now. Here are a couple of highlights: config.*.yaml – If you’ve been using DDEV on a team across different operating systems you’ve experienced how wonderful it is to be able … Continued
