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Get Started · Documentation · Quickstarts · Add-on Registry · Contributing · Sponsor

The quickest path is the Get Started guide: pick your operating system and it gives you the install commands and your first project, on one page.

If you'd rather read the full instructions:

1. 💻 Check that DDEV runs where you work: macOS, Windows 11, WSL2, Linux, and GitHub Codespaces. See the system requirements.
2. 📥 Install a Docker provider and DDEV: follow the install instructions.
3. 🏁 Start your first project: pick a quickstart guide for your CMS or framework, then run ddev start.

Want to try DDEV first? Run it in your browser, nothing to install:

DDEV takes care of Docker for you, so you and your team can focus on your work. It comes with good defaults for everyday use, and you can change them when you need more.

• 🚀 Ready in minutes: good defaults and little setup. Just run ddev start.
• 📦 One setup per project: keep it in Git and share the same environment with your whole team.
• 🔧 Your stack, your choice: PHP 5.6 through 8.5, Nginx or Apache, and MariaDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, per project. And any version of Node.js you need.
• 🧩 Easy to extend: a growing set of add-ons for extra services and integrations, and custom commands are ordinary shell scripts.
• 🖥️ Runs everywhere: macOS, Windows, WSL2, Linux, and GitHub Codespaces, on both ARM64 and AMD64.
• 🔒 Included out of the box: trusted HTTPS, Xdebug, database snapshots, and hosting integrations with Upsun (formerly Platform.sh), Pantheon, Acquia, and others.
• 💙 Run by the community: free and open source, cared for by the nonprofit DDEV Foundation.

• ddev start and ddev stop: run or pause a project's containers
• ddev import-db and ddev import-files: load a database dump, or user-upload files such as Drupal sites/default/files and WordPress wp-content/uploads
• ddev snapshot: save and restore database state
• ddev exec and ddev ssh: run a command inside the web container, or open a shell in it
• ddev logs and ddev list: read container logs, or see every project on the machine
• ddev share: hand someone a temporary public URL for your local site

Run ddev for the full command reference.

• 💬 Discord: the fastest way to get help and talk to the maintainers
• 🧭 Support: every place the friendly community answers questions
• 🐛 Issues: report bugs and ask for new features
• 📚 Documentation: guides, references, and how-tos
• 📣 Blog: news, releases, and community updates

• 🙋 “How can I contribute to DDEV?” in the FAQ: all the ways to help, code or not
• 📄 Contributing: issues, pull requests, and Stack Overflow
• 🛠️ Building, Testing, and Contributing: build the binary and run the tests

DDEV is free and open source, maintained by the nonprofit DDEV Foundation and paid for by its community. If DDEV saves you time, please consider sponsoring the project. Sponsorships fund the maintainers and infrastructure, and keep DDEV independent.

DDEV depends on products and services provided free of charge by the generous companies below. Thanks!

Sponsor	Contribution
	Linux package repository hosting is graciously provided by Cloudsmith. Cloudsmith is the only fully hosted, cloud-native, universal package management solution, that enables your organization to create, store and share packages in any format, to any place, with total confidence.
	JetBrains provides DDEV maintainers with licenses for its IDEs.
	MacStadium provides a cloud-hosted Apple silicon machine that DDEV uses for testing.

DDEV is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.