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How to deploy local DDEV Drupal site to a Digital Ocean droplet?

Question How to deploy local DDEV Drupal site to a droplet?

Posted on March 28, 2025
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miwynneAsked by Michael

I suspect there are resources on this already, but I’m pretty new to deploying sites so I’ve likely missed them, and links to accessible documentation is great!

Basically once I have a local Drupal 11 project ready (using DDEV/Docker), what is a recommended workflow to deploy that on a Digital Ocean droplet? Or if a droplet isn’t the way to go, what is?

Thanks!

Solution

  • DDEV is mostly intended and designed for local development.

    There are many resources on how to deploy Drupal sites in general, and you can do it most anywhere.

    Moving CMS sites around (server-to-server, server-to-local, local-to-server is one that explains the basic ideas.

    You can in fact use DDEV for hosting though, see https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/users/topics/hosting/