Open-source, Herd-like local PHP development for Linux and macOS, with Windows via WSL2 (beta). Podman-native, rootless, with a built-in Web UI.

lerd-env is the home for Lerd's community and distribution repos. The main project lives at geodro/lerd; the repos here are the pieces that let Lerd grow and ship without a binary release.

lerd link and your project is live at project.test with HTTPS. No Docker, no sudo, no system pollution. Works with Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Drupal, CakePHP, Statamic, and any custom PHP framework.

curl -fsSL https://lerd.sh/install.sh | bash

• frameworks, the community framework store. Every lerd link pulls a matching definition from here, so a new PHP framework gains full support by editing YAML, no Lerd release required.
• lerd-nixos, the NixOS flake. Packages the binary and ships the configuration.nix blocks the stack needs to run Lerd declaratively.
• geodro/lerd, the main project: the CLI, the Web UI, the MCP server, and everything else.

• 🌐 Automatic .test domains with one-command TLS
• 🐘 Per-project PHP versions (8.1 to 8.5), switched with one click
• 🖥️ Built-in Web UI and a btop-style terminal dashboard
• 🗄️ One-click services: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Meilisearch, Mailpit, and more
• 🤖 MCP server, so AI assistants can drive your environment directly
• 🔒 Rootless and daemonless, Podman-native, no Docker required

Read the docs at lerd.sh, join the community on Discord and r/lerd, and open a pull request. Adding a framework to the store is the easiest place to start.