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Talking Drupal #549 - Catching up with the DDEV Team
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:17:15
Publish Date: 2026-04-20 18:00:00
Description:

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 philosophy, your contributed module/theme is the center of the universe.
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