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 is a local development environment based on Docker containers that gets you up and working on your project fast. Configuring Docker for local development performance is no longer a dark art when all the benefits are wrapped in a user friendly tool like DDEV-Local. When you’re ready for additional configuration and customization, you wont … Continued
WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2) is finally generally available on recent editions of Windows! Because of Docker’s great support for WSL2, it’s now the preferred way to run your DDEV-Local development environment on Windows. DDEV-Local on WSL2 is as fast as DDEV-Local on Linux, but you have all the Windows niceties you love … Continued
In 2020, users from designers to developers to testers and open source contributors have a wide variety of local development environments to chose from. Because most of the tools and platforms we use will run in many different operating systems and environments, we have the option of rolling our own, using a commercial project like … Continued
WSL2 with DDEV-Local is a wonderful new world for Windows developers. The performance is incredible (on a par with native Linux installations) and the WSL2 command-line environment is fresh and clean. As noted in the WSL2 blog article, Visual Studio Code is doing great with WSL2, but PHPStorm is lagging a bit behind. However, it … Continued
Congratulations to the Drupal community on today’s release of Drupal 9! It’s another amazing milestone in the 20-year story of Drupal. Drupal 9 is set up to make migration from Drupal 8 easy, and is very much an incremental step, incorporating newer versions of Symfony and modernizing Drupal with a cleaner, leaner codebase. Thank you … Continued
Many of you allow DDEV-Local to use telemetry to collect statistics about DDEV usage. Thanks! We last shared these stats with you way back in March, 2019, so it’s time for an update. Here’s a report about usage patterns from recent months. Operating System Usage: Because DDEV-Local works the same on macOS, Windows, and Linux, … Continued
As Apple has ratcheted up the pressure on developers with new security requirements, we wanted the users of both DDEV-Local and DDEV-Live to have command-line tools they could depend on without macOS Catalina randomly disabling them and making life difficult. It’s been a challenging task, with Apple first requiring code signing and then later increasing … Continued
Updated 2021-01-25 with input from @ops-andy (thanks!) DDEV-Local and Docker work fine for local development on an inexpensive Chromebook! I’d been wanting to try out a Chromebook for DDEV-Local development for a while and I confess that I did an impulse buy on Amazon and got the 8GB Asus C425 for $329, which is a … Continued
One DDEV-Local feature that lots of people love is DDEV’s creation and management of CMS-specific settings files. This makes starting and installing a new project a breeze, and is a fantastic time-saver for many users. People can follow one of the many DDEV-Local Quickstart Guides and have a project up and installed in no time. … Continued
Did you know that you can customize DDEV-Local Docker images with some very simple changes? We talked about web container customization a little with the release of DDEV-Local 1.8.0, and now we’re back with more details! There are two major ways to customize your DDEV-Local web image, but they’re mutually incompatible: Add a Debian package … Continued
