Setting up IntelliJ IDEA with DDEV

[madamadami]

For the first time, I want to set up IntelliJ IDEA with DDEV. Since phpStorm and IntelliJ IDEA are very similar, I followed this doc https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/users/install/phpstorm/
But when specifying docker compose executable, I get this error: "Docker Compose V1 is deprecated, please use Docker
Compose V2." This is cumbersome, because I have version 2.29.1 already installed. What is the reason for this error and how I can fix it?

My system:
macOS 14.6.1
docker provider: orbstack 1.7.2 (17389)

[rfay]

Hi @madamadami - Jetbrains is still a bit confused about what docker-compose v2 is. You have the right path there it looks like to me.

DDEV does not use any Docker Compose that you may have installed. It uses its own docker-compose, which you have set up correctly there.

I opened an issue with them about this. But they think that using docker-compose means using compose v1, and they think that using docker compose means compose v2, but it's just something they've been confused about for a few years.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-68723/Misundertanding-Miscommunication-of-docker-compose-v2

I should also mention that if you use the DDEV Integration Plugin, it does all these things for you, https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/18813-ddev-integration

[madamadami]

Thanks a lot! Finally I used the integration plugin.

[rfay]

Yay!