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DDev in the Cloud

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24 March 2026

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These instructions can be used to install and test DDev in the Cloud for working on Drupal.org issues.

Warning

Experimental Service

This is an experimental service with no guarantees of data retention, uptime, or long-term availability. The future of its maintenance and sustainability is uncertain. Do not store irreplaceable work here without pushing it to Git. Treat it as a convenience, not a platform to depend on.

When working on Drupal 12, Drush is not currently available and your installed Drupal site will have the demo_umami profile pre-installed.

It is important to login as an administrator and clear cache before you have a usable site.

  1. Login to drupal.org
  2. Ensure that you have setup git access for your drupal.org user account.
  3. Login to github.com 
  4. Visit coder.ddev.com/login
  5. Press the “GitHub” button
  6. Click or copy the one-time code.
  7. Follow the “Open and Paste” link (opens in a new window or tab).
  8. Follow the steps and paste in your one-time code from step 6.
  9. Follow the steps to confirm that DDev Coder has been granted access.
  10. Return to the DDev Coder browser tab or window. The web site should now redirect to the Coder workspace overview page.
  11. In a new tab, visit https://start.coder.ddev.com/drupal-issue .
  12. Copy the URL of the drupal.org issue with an issue fork and paste it into the “Issue number or URL” input field.
  13. Press the Load Issue button.
  14. Confirm the workspace setup.

The “Drupal Site” button will open the installed Drupal web site in a new window.

Working with Drupal in the browser

  1. Press the “Drupal Site” button to open the Drupal web site.
  2. You can log in to your working Drupal web site using admin as the username and admin as the password.
  3. Complete the task that you need to work on in the issue such as “Add screenshots to an issue”.

Working with Visual Studio Code in the browser

  1. Press the “VS Code Web” button to open Visual Studio Code in a new window.
  2. In the Visual Studio Code interface, you can find the module or drupal directory inside the repos directory by navigating from the left sidebar or using the terminal. For example, if you are working on a Drupal core issue, the repository is cloned into repos/drupal so you would run cd repos/drupal to access that directory in the terminal.
  3. Ensure that you trust the workspace when prompted to do so.
  4. Configure the .gitignore file
    1. Copy repos/drupal/example.gitignore to repos/drupal/.gitignore
    2. Add vendor and .gitignore on separate lines to repos/drupal/.gitignore

Pushing your changes back to drupal.org issue fork

  1. Configure your git user name and email by running the following commands in the terminal.
    1. git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
    2. git config --global user.name "Your Name"
  2. Create a GitLab Personal Access Token allowing the “write_repository” permission. Read the “Authenticating with Personal access token over HTTPS” documentation for instructions. It is advised to save the token after you create in a password manager as you will not be able to view the token again after creating it.
  3. Change directory to the project directory inside the repos directory e.g. cd repos/drupal.
  4. Ensure the git branch is correct, commit your changes, and when you run git push <issue fork remote> <issue fork branch>, use the personal access token generated above as the password when prompted.

Using Drush

  1. Run ./vendor/bin/drush in the terminal.

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