About Craft Nitro

Nitro is no longer supported. Please see our announcement and DDEV migration guide.

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  • What’s Included
  • System Requirements

Nitro is a speedy local development environment tuned for Craft CMS (opens new window), powered by Multipass (opens new window).

What’s Included

Nitro installs the following on every machine:

• PHP 7.4 (+ option to use 7.3 or 7.2)
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Xdebug
• Blackfire
• MailHog

System Requirements

• macOS, Linux, or Windows 10 Pro with Hyper-V enabled
• Multipass (opens new window) 1.5.0+

Nitro 1 does not support M1 Macs.