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Use WarpBuild runners for the compute-heavy parts of your DDEV Drupal pipeline, keep cache keys deterministic, and gate rollout by p95 runtime and failure-rate SLOs. This gives you faster CI without turning your pipeline into a probabilistic black box. I verified this playbook against DDEV v1.25.1 (released February 23, 2026) and WarpBuild docs as of February 25, 2026.
DDEV is one of the few local dev tools I actually trust for PHP work. Stas Zhuk joined as a core maintainer, and since then the project has been moving faster on the things that matter: broader platform compatibility, newer runtime support, and less friction in day-to-day workflows.
I have been tracking Stas's contributions. The direction is solid.
DDEV v1.25.0 fundamentally improves how we share work in progress. The new modular share provider system with Cloudflare Tunnel as the default is the best developer experience improvement in DDEV in years. Zero config, zero accounts, zero friction.
I have been using it daily since the release, and the old ngrok workflow feels ancient.
I built a DDEV add-on that runs Playwright checks against local MCP endpoints using internal DDEV DNS names like web. This solves flaky localhost-based testing and gives one command for repeatable MCP smoke tests.
DDEV 1.25.0 ships experimental support for Podman and Docker rootless. This opens up corporate-friendly runtimes, but introduces trade-offs that the announcement does not emphasize enough.
I built a CLI that audits your global_config.yaml so you know before you flip the switch.