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Dockerized Drupal development with Lando

For a stint in time I was using Lando for local development of our Drupal CMS. The required resources ended up draining more resources than was performant on my MacBook, so I switched development strategies. Your mileage may vary.

Developing locally with Lando

Lando lets us easily spin up a local development environment. They have a configuration specifically for syncing with Pantheon.

Requirements

  1. Install Docker for Mac from Docker.dmgfrom the Docker site
  2. Ensure Homebrew is installed and up-to-date
  3. Install Lando using Homebrew: brew install cask lando

Getting started

  1. Create an empty directory
  2. cd into the new directory
  3. Run lando init pantheon. You should be able to select your Pantheon identity and site.
  4. From Pantheon, create a machine token. At the end, run the following to add the token to lando: lando terminus auth:login --machine-token=<machine-token>
  5. Run lando start. This spins up the local app server.
  6. Run lando pull. You will be able to pull code, database and files from a Pantheon environment.

More about lando pull

Generally speaking, we use lando pull for the initial build.

For image syncing, rsync them: lando pull --rsync

More examples, from Lando's docs:

# Pull the latest code, database and files
# This will pull the environment associated with your currently checked out git branch
lando pull

# Skip a code merge
lando pull --code=none

# Pull only the database from the test environment
lando pull --database=test --files=none

# Pull only the files
lando pull --database=none

# Pull only the latest files without grabbing a files backup
lando pull --database=none --rsync

Pushing local changes

We uselando pushto push up any changes to code, database and files made locally.

Lando only pushes up code by default.

# Push the local code
# This will push to the environment associated with your currently checked out git branch
lando push

# Push only the database and code
lando push --files=none

 # Push only the files and code
 lando push --database=none

Shutting down lando

# Force shutdown all Docker containers
docker container kill $(docker container ls -a -q)

# Remove all Docker containers
docker container rm $(docker container ls -a -q)

# Remove all Docker images
docker image rm $(docker image ls -a -q)