In my previous blog post, Using DDEV snapshots to speed up GitHub Actions workflows, I explained how DDEV snapshots can be used to speed up continuous integration workflows for end-to-end tests. A workflow runs on the main development branch to create a DDEV snapshot to be cached and reused by subsequent jobs. If that cache can speed up continuous integration workflows, why can't it also speed up developer onboarding?
It is actually pretty simple! You will need somewhere to upload the snapshot archive, such as AWS S3 or some other storage. I leverage S3 for database dumps that I re-use with Tugboat so that a sample database can be seeded. I just never put it all together: use your CI to populate the dump artifact and automatically upload it so it can be shared across your team!