At Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019 I moderated a very interesting panel about Local Drupal Development tools. The invited panelists were: Randy Fay from Drud (DDEV), Mattias Michaux from Dropsolid (Launchpad), Michael Schmid from Amazee (Lagoon), Engin Yilmaz from FFW (Docksal), Mark Casias from Mediacurrent (Lando) and Alejandro Moreno-Lopez from Acquia (Acquia DS). It seems everyone has their own favorite local development tool these days. From Lando to DDEV, going over Launchpad, Docksal to custom solutions, developers have strong opinions of which tools rank supreme. In this session, creators and users of different local development tools will provide their story of why they made the choices they made. We had an healthy debate and discussion as the main driver here so any questions or concerns regarding the subject were welcome.

1. The "battle" of the local development tools
Moderated by Ricardo Amaro, Acquia
Randy Fay, DDEV;
Mark Casias, Lando;
Alejandro Moreno-Lopez, Acquia DevStudio;
Engin Yilmaz, Docksal;
Mattias Michaux, Launchpad;
Michael Schmid, Lagoon;
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3. DDEV Local
• Easy to learn
• Great, fast community support
• Super quick startup (20s)
• Run many projects
• Different config for each
• Extensible with many services
• Regular maintenance and new features
• No GUI
Developer / Ddev by Drud
Ddev maintainer
rfay
Logo Headshot
Randy Fay
Battle of the DevTools

4. Lando
• Built to free you from the shackles of dev monotony
so you can focus on your most important work
• FOSS Docker-based local dev tool for all your projects
• Can run anywhere (Windows, macOS, Linux, TravisCI)
• Can run anything (Drupal, WordPress, dotnet, node)
• A single config file to share via version control
• A single command, lando start, gets you EVERYTHING
you need to run, develop and test your app
• Works out of the box with sane defaults but
customizable down to the Docker level
Sr Software Engineer @ Mediacurrent
markie
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Mark Casias
Battle of the DevTools

5. Acquia Developer Studio
The Acquia Developer Studio CLI helps
operationalize and standardize environments and
actions with Acquia’s Platform Products. It helps
create new Drupal 8 projects for Acquia Cloud, as
well as leverage related technologies in the Drupal
stack, such as composer, drush, Acquia BLT, and
more. It also features a virtualized environment
integration using Lando or Drupal VM.
Technical Architect / Acquia
drupal.org/u/alexmoreno
@morenodotnet
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Alejandro Moreno Lopez
Battle of the DevTools

6. Docksal
● Docker powered environment for development
● Zero config quick start
● Flexible configuration for advanced use cases
● With boilerplates for different applications (Drupal, WP, Gatsby[...])
● With predefined stacks for known hosting/setup (Acquia, Pantheon, node)
● With a library of docker images for additional application stack (Solr,
ElasticSearch, varnish)
● CI-ready for multiple CI-Pipeline tools
● Integrated web IDE with xdebug (VS Code Server)
Senior Developer // FFW
https://drupal.org/u/eyilmaz
Engin Yilmaz
Battle of the DevTools

7. Launchpad
• Docker based tool with speed and size optimized
images
• Fully integrated with Dropsolid Platform
• Short onboarding time for developers and clients with
Dropsolid Platform
• Focused on developer experience (debugging,
performance, ...)
• Extendable, customizable and overridable per project
Senior R&D engineer / Dropsolid
Mollux
Mattias Michaux
Battle of the DevTools

8. pygmy (Lagoon)
• Leverages existing open source tools as much as
possible
• haproxy
• mailhog
• ssh agent
• Just docker-compose :)
CTO / amazee.io
@Schnitzel
Michael Schmid
Battle of the DevTools

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Quaestions
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10. What are the most common
difficulties found by users when
using your tool?

11. What are your major plans or
roadmap for your tool?

12. The "battle" of the local development tools
Thank you!