VIP Local Development Environment requirements
To successfully work with the VIP Local Development Environment, some dependencies must be installed and maintained on the user's local machine.
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VIP Local Development Environment limitations
Some features are not yet available in the local environment or have default behaviors that differ from a VIP Platform environment.
Stack services
Similar to VIP Platform environments, the VIP Local Development Environment has container-based services. Some of the service containers on the local machine have exposed ports.
Global locations of edge servers
Locations of WordPress VIP’s network of edge servers span the globe to efficiently store and serve content closest to an end user.
Edge cache file compression
The Brotli compression and Gzip compression methods are both supported and are applied to the responses of qualifying requests.
Cleanup operations for data syncing
During the final steps of a data sync from a production environment to a non-production environment the custom CLI command wp vip data-cleanup datasync is run against the target environment.
HTTP metrics
Insights into the performance of responses to HTTP requests that are made to an environment can be reviewed in the Insights & Metrics panel, located in the application view of the VIP Dashboard.
Resource Usage metrics
Insights into the quality of performance of an environment’s infrastructure-level resources can be reviewed in the Insights & Metrics panel, located in the application view of the VIP Dashboard.
Database metrics
Insights into the size and health of an environment’s database can be reviewed the Insights & Metrics panel, located in the application view of the VIP Dashboard.
Cache metrics
Insights into an application’s utilization of the VIP Platform’s caching layers can be reviewed in the Insights & Metrics panel, located in the application view of the VIP Dashboard.