Talking Drupal #549 - Catching up with the DDEV Team — Talking Drupal

In Episode 549, Randy Fay and Stas Zhuk join us to discuss what DDEV is, recent improvements, and where it's headed. Module of the week is the DDEV Drupal Contrib add-on. Randy and Stas discuss priorities like reliability, consistent UX, add-ons discoverability, and new features including revamped ddev share with Cloudflare and rootless Podman support. They also cover coder.ddev.com, a cloud-based DDEV environment built on coder.com for easier onboarding and contribution, plus sustainability, community support, and challenges such as AI-driven PR volume and Stas's development constraints in Ukraine.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/549

Topics

Module of the Week - DDEV Drupal Contrib
DDev Drupal Contri Overview
Contrib Workflow Q&A
Drush in Core Debate
Add-on Registry and Contact
Drupal AI Summit Plug
What Is DDev
Stas Origin Story
Recent Releases and Priorities
DDev Share and Podman
Developer Experience Changes
Database Upgrade Pain Points
Coder DDev Cloud IDE
Cloud DDEV Basics
VS Code Remote Workflow
Pair Programming Training Wins
Docker Desktop Alternatives
Onboarding Teams Faster
Windows Support Reality
Building Through War
Roadmap Env File Fixes
Beyond Drupal Adoption
Addons Discovery Tools
Funding Community Health
AI Pull Requests Pressure
AI Agents MCP Plans
How To Get Involved

Resources

DDEV - https://ddev.com/
DDEV Add-on Registry - https://addons.ddev.com/
Introducing coder.ddev.com: DDEV in the Cloud - https://ddev.com/blog/coder-ddev-com-announcement/
About Stas Zhuk - https://ddev.com/blog/introducing-maintainer-stas/
Power Through Blackouts: How DDEV Community Helped Me in Ukraine - https://ddev.com/blog/power-through-blackouts-ddev-community-support/
Drush command in core - https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3453474
Drush's Final Act - https://weitzman.github.io/blog/drush-final-act
coder.com - https://coder.com/
Service hosting coder.ddev.com - https://www.hetzner.com/
Funding DDEV - https://ddev.com/blog/sustainability-for-ddev/
Gen AI DDEV newsletter note - https://ddev.com/blog/ddev-march-2026-newsletter/
Sharing Coder.ddev.com workspaces - https://github.com/ddev/coder-ddev/issues/80

Guests

Stas Zhuk - stasadev
Randy Fay - ddev.com rfay

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Rod Martin - DrupalHelps.com imrodmartin

Module of the Week

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

DDEV Drupal Contrib - DDEV integration for developing Drupal contrib projects. As a general philo