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title: "Local Development"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Explore local development options for Acquia Cloud Platform with DDEV and Lando. Seamlessly integrate and manage your Drupal projects."
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Acquia recommends [Cloud IDE](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/ide) as the best environment for developing Drupal applications. However, Acquia also provides limited integration with the following open source alternatives to [Cloud IDE](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/ide) for local development:

*   DDEV
*   Lando

DDEV
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[DDEV](https://ddev.com/) offers a quick and easy way to launch local web development environments. It makes the process of configuring and maintaining environments for web applications simple and efficient.

DDEV provides integration with [Cloud Platform](/acquia-cloud-platform) so that you can pull database and files from an existing project on [Cloud Platform](/acquia-cloud-platform) into your local DDEV-managed environment.

To get started with DDEV, see the [Acquia integration documentation](https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/providers/acquia/).

Lando
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[Lando](https://lando.dev/) is an open source tool for creating and managing a local LAMP stack for Drupal development through [Docker](https://www.docker.com/). Lando is created and maintained by [Think Tandem](https://thinktandem.io/).

In collaboration with Acquia, the Lando team has built an open source Acquia plugin for Lando. The plugin:

*   Mimics [Cloud Platform](/acquia-cloud-platform) environments locally
*   Allows you to easily `pull` your Acquia site to your local machine through [Acquia CLI](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/acquia-cli)
*   Allows you to easily `push` your changes to [Cloud Platform](/acquia-cloud-platform) through [Acquia CLI](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/acquia-cli)
*   Installs `drush`, `acli`, and other power tools

To get started with Lando, see the [Acquia plugin for Lando documentation](https://docs.lando.dev/acquia/).

For more information, see the following documentation:

*   For DDEV, see [DDEV documentation](https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
*   For Lando, see [Lando documentation](https://docs.lando.dev/).