Navigate to your project directory, run ddev config, and follow the prompts.In the same way you’ve used nitro add to create a site with Nitro, you’ll use ddev config to create a site with DDEV. You can stop all Nitro’s containers using the stop command: nitro stopįollow DDEV’s documentation get it installed and running on your OS. Running Nitro and DDEV simultaneously may invite port conflicts, so we’ll stop Nitro to ensure that DDEV will be the only local environment running. (Take note of the directories these are saved to, or collect the backups someplace more convenient for step 5.) From your local machine with Nitro installed, you can run nitro db backup and choose each engine and database.This will create and download a compressed database dump. From your production environment, you can visit the Craft control panel (with sufficient permissions) and navigate to Utilities → Database Backup, make sure Download backup is checked, and press Backup.

Pick either method for exporting each site’s database: Most sites should only take a few minutes to migrate.

It’s a convenient layer on top of Docker, and you can bring as little or as much Docker as you want.įor each site you migrate, you’ll need to grab a database export (from Nitro or your production environment), create and configure a new DDEV site, and import the database.

It’s perfect for PHP-based projects like Craft.It’s well documented and has an active community.It’s Docker-based, freely available, and it works on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

With Nitro being discontinued, we recommend DDEV as a great local development environment:

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