DDEV Platform.sh

Overview

Platform.sh is a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running and scaling web applications.

This repository is used with ddev add-on get ddev/ddev-platformsh to get a rich integration between your checked-out Platform.sh project and DDEV.

Using with a Platform.sh project

Dependencies

Make sure you have DDEV v1.24.3+ installed

Install

1. Clone your project repository (e.g. platform get <projectid>)
2. cd into your project directory
3. Run ddev config and answer the questions as appropriate
4. Run ddev add-on get ddev/ddev-platformsh and answer the questions as appropriate
5. Run ddev start
6. (Optional) Run ddev pull platform to retrieve a copy of the database and contents from the project’s file mounts from the environment you entered in step #5. (If you only want to retrieve the database (skipping the file mounts), add the --skip-files flag to the ddev pull platform command.)

Upgrade

To upgrade your version of ddev-platformsh, repeat the ddev add-on get ddev/ddev-platformsh to get the latest release. To see the installed version, ddev add-on list --installed.

Run it again if you change your Platform.sh configuration

If you change your .platform.app.yaml or something in your .platform directory, repeat the ddev add-on get ddev/ddev-platformsh so that the generated configuration for DDEV will be updated.

Notes

• If your local project has a different database type than the upstream (Platform.sh) database, it will conflict, so please back up your database with ddev export-db and ddev delete before starting the project with new config based on upstream.
• Your experience is super-important: Please let us know about how it went for you in any of the DDEV support venues

What does it do right now?

• Works with many projects of type php, for example, php:8.2 or php:8.3. It does not work with non-php projects.
• Takes your checked-out Platform.sh project and configures DDEV based on that information.
  • PHP and Database version
  • Hooks are converted to DDEV post-start hooks
  • A working ddev pull platform integration with all mounts is created.
  • Exposes specific $PLATFORM_ variables (e.g., $PLATFORM_RELATIONSHIPS, $PLATFORM_ROUTES)
• Supports the following services:
  • Databases
    • MariaDB
    • Oracle MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Redis-persistent
  • Memcached
  • Elasticsearch
• Provides the following Platform.sh-provided environmental variables:
  • PLATFORM_APP_DIR
  • PLATFORM_APPLICATION_NAME
  • PLATFORM_CACHE_DIR
  • PLATFORM_ENVIRONMENT
  • PLATFORM_PROJECT
  • PLATFORM_PROJECT_ENTROPY
  • PLATFORM_RELATIONSHIPS
  • PLATFORM_ROUTES
  • PLATFORM_TREE_ID
  • PLATFORM_VARIABLES

What has been tested

These Platform.sh templates are included in the automated tests that run nightly. They will be growing in maturity with your feedback!

• php
• drupal9, drupal10, drupal11
• laravel
• magento2ce
• wordpress-composer

(Each of the above but magento2ce has automated tests.)

What will it do in the future

• Populate important PLATFORMSH environment variables that would be found upstream
• Populate PHP and other dependencies configured upstream
• Automatically figure out the name and other information of the upstream project
• Automatically configure the .ddev/providers/platform so you can immediately do a ddev pull platform with no configuration effort.
• Let us know what’s important to you!

Credits

Maintained by @rfay