The new tool is designed to help developers who have relatively little experience deploy code using the DDEV Community interface.

It manages industry standard components like MySQL, NGINX, and PHP by default, with the ability to extend to include Redis, Apache Solr, memcache, Varnish, and others as well.

DDEV Community is claimed to deliver the following benefits:

• Cost savings: Companies can reclaim 5% to 20% overhead of each developer’s work week that is spent researching, installing, upgrading, debugging, and maintaining their local development stack and deployments.
• Tooling consistency: Using DDEV Community, all resources perform the typical local environment management tasks the same way and with the same outcome, delivering a steep reduction in setup time, task switching, and reworking inefficiencies.
• Task and budget estimating efficiency: The time taken by developers to complete tasks can be reduced by up to 20%.
• Test-driven reliability: Each commit to the DDEV Community codebase kicks off automated tests to ensure there are no breaks in existing functionality or operating system capability, and that changes in underlying technologies do not require changes to maintain functionality.
• Pluggable architecture: DDEV Community was designed to be pluggable with a variety of hosting providers and platforms (notably Pantheon.io) to reduce time spent syncing code, databases, and files between environments.
• Instant developer utility: DDEV Community is claimed to eliminate the need for developers to be experts across myriad technologies.
• Quick installation and upgrades: DDEV Community can be installed and upgraded in minutes across all major operating systems.

DRUD Tech chief executive Steven Grandchamp said: “Web development teams are all-too-familiar with the hours lost due to slow set-up, task-switching between projects, and lack of tooling consistency, whether it’s for a client website client or a project for an internal department.

“Using DRUD Tech’s DDEV Community, development teams can see an unmatched reduction in process and cost inefficiencies all while delivering a superior quality of work. DDEV Community is a critical, must-have new solution for Web development teams of all sizes to achieve nearly instant benefits through much more simplified and automated development processes.”