Services and Add-ons¶

Built in for every project¶

Service	How to open it	Notes
Mailpit	Mailpit (project) app button, or `ddev launch -m`	Catches all email the project sends. Always private.
xhgui	xhgui (project) app button	Profiling UI. Turn profiling on with `ddev xhgui on`. Always private.
Database	`ddev mysql`, `ddev psql`, `ddev import-db`, `ddev export-db`, `ddev snapshot`	MariaDB by default; change it with `ddev config --database=...`.

Database tools¶

The quickest way to look at the database is the command line:

ddev mysql                              # interactive client (MariaDB/MySQL)
ddev mysql -e 'SHOW TABLES;'            # one query
ddev export-db --file=backup.sql.gz     # back up
ddev snapshot                           # fast snapshot you can restore with ddev snapshot restore

To use a desktop database client such as TablePlus or DBeaver, forward the database port to your computer with the Coder CLI. ddev describe shows the database’s host port:

# On your computer
coder port-forward my-workspace --tcp 3306:<host-port-from-ddev-describe>

Then connect your client to 127.0.0.1:3306 with user db, password db, database db.

Adminer and phpMyAdmin

On coder.ddev.com, freeform workspaces don’t have an Adminer app button. You can still install a database UI add-on (for example ddev add-on get ddev/ddev-adminer); ddev launch then lists its URL as a forwarded port that only you can open.

Other DDEV add-ons¶

Install add-ons from the DDEV add-on registry the usual way:

ddev add-on get ddev/ddev-redis
ddev add-on get ddev/ddev-solr
ddev restart

The hook that ddev coder-setup installed runs after every start and adds routes for any new services that have a web interface. Run ddev launch to list all of the project’s URLs, including those for add-ons.

Add-on services with a web interface are reachable through forwarded-port URLs such as https://8983--main--my-workspace--jdoe.coder.ddev.com. These are private to you.
ddev describe shows the new URLs after one more ddev restart; ddev launch shows them right away.

Other ports¶

Anything listening on a port in the workspace (a dev server you run by hand, for example) can be opened from the workspace page with the Ports button, or from the command line:

# On your computer: make workspace port 5173 available as localhost:5173
coder port-forward my-workspace --tcp 5173