How to Install DDEV on macOS

If you haven’t yet installed Dock­er Desk­top on your local machine, please do the pre­vi­ous step first. Oth­er­wise, noth­ing will work! 

We are going to use Home­brew to install DDEV. If you don’t already have Home­brew installed, check out the offi­cial doc­u­men­ta­tion on installing Home­brew.

brew install drud/ddev/ddev

DDEV han­dles all self-signed, local­ly trust­ed SSL cer­tifi­cates, so you can run secure con­nec­tions on named hosts local­ly. To get this work­ing, we need to run the mkcert com­mand to install the certificates. 

mkcert is a util­i­ty that han­dles the process of cre­at­ing trust­ed cer­tifi­cates. No messy set­up or configuration!

mkcert -install

Let’s con­firm that DDEV is run­ning as we expect. To do that, we’ll run a ddev com­mand check the output.

ddev version

This should out­put some infor­ma­tion about the DDEV ver­sion installed, includ­ing oth­er sup­port­ing software.