Level Up Your Development Experience with Lando

is level up your development experience

with Lando I am Aaron fella D I do

freelance Drupal development and

consulting under the name of Aaron

solutions I mainly do embed myself in

with agencies or companies that already

have web development teams but need to

be supplemented with someone that has

Drupal expertise and I go in and out of

all sorts of different agencies and

companies work on all sorts of different

websites so just have a lot of

experience of doing a whole lot of

different types of things from

troubleshooting to full-out development

to sometimes I even have to play with

Photoshop all right then I'm here to

talk about Lando but not that Lando I'm

also not that Landale this Lando

but before I get into the specifics of

Lando I'm going to talk about brief

history of the options you may have had

a short time ago and got see really

really close so local development one of

the ways that people have done it and

I've actually gone into an environment

that this is how they did it and it took

IT forever to set me up so I could

terminal in to do anything and they stay

wouldn't let me have a copy of their

code I could only manipulate stuff on

the development server and this is how

their team was doing it they were using

FTP and SSH directly into it alter code

and and I've heard of this before and

I've seen it myself and probably one of

the worst ways to do it it's awful for

collaboration everybody stepping on each

other's toes over writing each other's

code even if you are using like get your

you still can have multiple people in

the server at a time trying to change

things at the same time it's a mess I'm

also maintaining an in-house server is

expensive you gotta have an IT guy to

maintain the thing machine itself is

thousands of dollars but the benefit is

you can have an exact copy of your

production server in your office so some

people do it

your other option is in native solutions

so you locally install your Apache PHP

your whole stack just read on your

machine your your laptop is essentially

your server this makes it so you can't

really change things easily because

everything's like installed if you

install PHP seven that's the one that's

installed

yeah the uninstall it install different

one if you need to work on a different

project or change versions for any

reason and it creates a situation where

if you have a team of people like you

can't be certain that everyone's

operating on the same stack when they're

working on your app that leaves all

kinds of problems mostly the it works on

my machine and there's the integrated

packages which kind of ease the process

a little bit of getting all these things

installed in your computer still

essentially the same concept you're

still installing PHP on your computer

you're still installing the various

pieces but this man zamp Wham I'm sure

yeah I could have def desktop I'm sure a

lot of you have used these things most

of you probably but you know you can't

change versions easily because you have

to uninstall things makes it a little

easier because this kind of handles that

process for you configure seams for you

so it's a step in the right direction

but again you can have teams with

different configurations unless you're

standing at the machine making sure

they're clicking the right boxes every

time

then you have your virtual machines so

these okay a little more portable you

can have someone set up a virtual

machine that very closely mimics your

production environment you can pass

these around to your team problem is

there they're big files and you're gonna

run into issues everybody getting them

installed properly but there's tools for

helping people manage the configuration

like vagrant and puppet and ansible

help you kind of standardize on a

configuration set and share it with the

rest of your team

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there's drupal vm which manages a lot of

the setting things up for you so that

eases things a bit but again like I said

it's difficult to configure initially

and big files and these things can be

resource intensive so then there's the

latest greatest thing that ever went was

getting into whether they should or not

it's containers this is docker the most

popular method of doing containers it

basically allows you to mix and match

your configuration they're already

pre-configured set up services

essentially you have a PHP container and

you have an Apache container and you can

have different versions of these and you

can theoretically mix and match them and

everything kind of plays nice together

and you don't have to do a whole lot of

configuration well you do initially once

you have two containers you can

do what you're doing and then there's a

they give you a docker compose which is

a file you can answer all of your

configuration in and then share that

file so that we use it any way you like

you define your PHP versions or Pacha

versions everything in a single file

share around everybody who has docker

can run the commands he'll spin up the

write containers and they'll have the

same stack as you so big improvement but

it's still the press that still gets a

little cumbersome so you still have to

wire up ports and things and there's

still quite a bit of configuration to

initially but another benefit is it's

also cross-platform your team can you

don't have to have everybody on the same

system you have windows and mac and

linux and as far as your app is

concerned as far as your Drupal sites

concerned here you're running on the

same same server as everybody else

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which brings me to Lando which is a free

open-source cross-platform local

development and DevOps tool

it runs command-line it's built on

docker technology and it is essentially

a wrapper for your development stack it

kind of takes all the parts that work

umbers them of setting things up and

tries to make it easier for you so what

can Lando do it can easily mimic

production locally standardized

development environments and tooling

across all your various systems

it's got integration for hosting the

writers like Pantheon it allows you to

do like and say the command is a Lando

pull and it'll pull down your whole site

you can specify okay I want the read

latest database just type one command it

loads it in here from your production or

we can send up for dead as well but pull

down from Pantheon directly into your

local single command

your configuration it's all one file all

of the config can go in one file for

everything you used up all of your your

port mapping all of your I'm gonna

custom commands and your holdings staff

is defined there to get their version

control do projects share it with the

team and your buddy's got Lando these

state Lando spins up the stack and yeah

that allows you to define your own tools

like I mentioned we couldn't say I want

to have a deployment script instead of

having a bandolier underscore deployment

scripting mega party Orlando package so

if you're sharing with your team - tell

your team is well the scripts already in

the projects are just state Lando deploy

and your team member can just say

languor deploy push whatever they're

working on to dev automatically everyone

set it up

so Lando is the base concept of Lando

configuration is recipes they're

pre-configured start states that

basically give you a common sense

defaults for any kind of development

you're wanting to do recipes that it

comes with and full of Drupal recipes

wordpress or just you want to lamp or

limb stack you just tell Lando that

that's where you want to start and it'll

give you all the kind of sense the pulse

that most people will probably be happy

with give you a good starting place

and they're the the base languages that

it supports PHP Python no Ruby net and

go these are basic built-in

pre-installed you spin up you do to

finding your lambda file you just say I

want PHP they'll install teach me some

point to automatically for you or

whichever language you like it's already

ready to go

and then you look at

I think one of my slides get overwritten

okay well I'll try to remember what that

one is but I'll continue on so here's an

example of the Lando config file single

piano file in this example we've defined

that the project is named Drupal tests

but the recipe it's going to use is

Drupal 8 which means it's gonna already

find the whole stack I'm saying Drupal

is true because the Drupal recipe comes

with a gerbil console as an option and I

want to turn down config I say ok my web

root within my project folder is called

da crew to mimic what's on production

and so now it will automatically set up

a patchy sub-points browser to the

finals in that group and this I want to

override I want to be HB 7.0 because 7.2

is too new for this particular project

now the next 50 bug turned on because I

might do some debugging and the cool

thing about the ex debug lift this is it

just works you don't have to do anything

say XD book true if you've got like a

peach peach storm or an IDE like that

you just listen for connections and it's

already wired up

services in this particular project that

I want male hog to catch all the the

male I'm so I just define it and it's

available I think this was my missing

slide some of the services that were

that are available you can mail hog and

PHP my admin or my school my high school

my anyway there's a bunch of different

like the programs you might have

installed on your server that you want

available and they're all installed

pretty much like this you say services

male hog you name it mail hug you say

it's tight mag it installs it for you

and this one database is actually one of

the default services that gets installed

with the Drupal recipe and I'm here just

defining that I want it to be overridden

to be nice to all five point seven

instead of whichever version it would

have installed late fall and then I can

set up proxies to handle routing the

domains that's kind of cumbersome in

other system but with glam though you

just right here to find a proxy

I'm actually mining that should be named

mail hug but you'd say proxy mail hog

give it that address when you go ahead

and browser and it takes you to that

service automatically it's worse

and all these things that I say it just

works you can override drill that all of

it it's there's nothing keeps it super

simple if you okay I want to start off

with a default go in your config it's

good to go but you want to change

versions you want to alter config files

you can pop those in define it here

Easy's can be

one of the big features is advanced

tooling so essentially you can as I

mentioned earlier make your own commands

for Lando in this example I've got a

Drupal 8 that also has a node installed

this actually came from a project that I

worked on where we're using a tool

called fractal which maintained all of

our all the elements for the theme

everything was there called the design

library I'm a front-end guy so but

anyways we set it up so that you could

say Lando install and it would do a

composer install install all the Drupal

stuff you need then it would run on the

node service it would run yarn fractal

install which would run that fractal

program then compile which would compile

all the assets for our theme and then

ultimately sync it so it's essentially

you're running a scripts but you'd apply

it right here in the same Lando file as

everything else you can also call the

script here if you just want to have it

last

Wow

this one actually just another example

here type of Lando D be reset so the

previous one was probably four okay that

you're just getting started you do plan

to install gives everything up and

running for you you're good to go

yeah something like this you could set

up to where DB reset if you've got a zip

file in your directory this script just

to look at it's probably a database dump

so we're gonna use Lando's built-in

helper script that imports it in your

app automatically and then we run the

cache rebuilds and then such to get you

up and running

this is not what I mentioned where you

could just go straight into a strict in

this particular one came from a project

that would deploy Drupal to hack the

environment

it runs the deploy scripts you typed

Lando through the pleasurable but it

also asks you which environment gives

you the option seriousness this is lando

doing this briefing pass through the an

environment variable essentially based

on a question and you could pass those

switches anything else to your scripts

that you need just by defining here in

your Lando file

and that fellow that broken you know

they came very prepared here all right

so you know what I'm gonna do I am here

I did it once successfully live demo

this so I might do it again here I think

I'm talking too fast I'm skipping over

things with a little nervous but so yeah

if you wanted to do like a decoupled

hope that's not you can't see that let's

see if I can fix it

yes my primary browser is Firefox

okay so Benji Fisher - this this was

based on I believe he mentioned in the

chat that was based on a trouble ticket

I was working on in the land of Q if you

have to be going he he would a lot

further so I'm just gonna show it what

he did so yeah essentially this is

basically if you want to do a decoupled

environment as an example of them GATS

me for example

well okay you need essentially the node

server and PHP Apache server to run

Drupal two separate apps this one sets

up standard Drupal server sets up some

end points for you with the proxy

settings there

and then he gives you so I get for not

getting hurt before this so you also

with lame-o get build steps that as

you're spinning up so you say Lando

start that spins up your app but you can

also say the first time your app starts

up install some app get to spent

dependencies or you know run some

scripts or whatever you whatever you

need to run the first time Yuri Raph is

watched on the local environment but

then there's also tons of other places

where you can kind of hook into the

different processes you can tell Lando

to do things when you're powering off

and pop up a message are you sure things

like that

in this particular ones

yeah

so he's a great composer install sale to

say it's on the app server which is the

default name Drupal recipe for the lamp

server essentially the true black he's

followed

no js' here I'm sure was running that

gets the instance ready to find another

versions of gas me and yarn there and

then the run will display a message in

the rum yard install the first time you

run it

he's also got some nginx configuration

going on there

and then tooling this is basically

what's gonna make it over so now you

could say Lando NPN Orlando node Orlando

Gatsby can run any of those commands

that would typically run if you had

these tools and so lovely so you don't

need an piano door Gatsby installed on

your local machine they exist in docker

containers separate from your machine

and if you run through land values you

don't have to ssa to the machinery and

your local terminal you say Lando Gatsby

if you're in your project directory it

will run the Gatsby command on that

node.js container for you so it's been

up your gatsby site the drupal recipes

i'm Drupal for you automatically and so

then all you have to do is it's work on

your endpoints and such and the like

thing that's basically how you need this

is gonna run both servers both apps in

separate dish environments and give you

everything you need

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man time 24 minutes so about five

minutes left

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we do questions

you can't see that

in other ways

there we go any questions yes so I have

friends with windows yes and I'm trying

to so the question was what's my

experience using windows and what

version do I have I running Windows 10

Pro that is a one of the requirements of

Lando is that you do have to run pro

because I'm making use of a native file

sharing solution that is not available

in the home version of Windows but my

experiences has always been good that's

part why I'm here advocating for this

because it is the first solution on

Windows that works great and I go and I

embed myself with other development

teams that have whatever solutions

they're using and I convince some news

Lando and they're using a variety of

different systems and they're all right

up to what I'm doing and they're loving

it and there were some growing pains but

oh you've used Lando in the past few

months they've tried a ton of new

releases so a lot of the bugs have been

squashed a lot of the issues are patched

up so it's pretty stable works pretty

well now is it a up lot of processor or

a gram

nothing compared to like with the VMS

and stuff I'd be running previously I

mean I've been using them in doses back

in the Kalibak days so run I'm running

now it's pretty souped up but my laptop

that I've been running up until I just

recently bought this one was a $500

Windows laptop it was a little sluggish

but yeah so a lot of the a lot of the

config is just a greatly simplified so

if you unless you need some of the

complexity they're going to get with the

doctor stuff like say you just want a

Drupal site up around you say you can

tell there's two commands you say lando

in it and Lando's Lango start so lando

in it will pull up in the last few okay

which recipe do I use take Drupal 8 it

defines it essentially defines your

docker compose file for you with

everything you need everything wired up

all your your your routing stuffs done

you ready to go and then from there

you'll write whatever little bits of

config that you need

and I add to that this a little bit I

think one of them most important parts

of having Lando is having that that

proxy server that they ship with it

and being able to just have that go on

the fly because you don't have to go in

and set up you know your FC hose or any

of that it allows allows you to put in

you know we don't blink like addresses

to all your different containers on the

plot I've read them quickly and just at

that proxy definition that I mentioned

you was done a couple of lines yeah yeah

yeah from from the start yeah yeah you

can it works without you doing anything

new the proxies only necessary if you

want to start overriding the Pioneer

only from the get-go it'll it'll take a

look at the ports that are available on

your machine to find them on manic

before you handle all that routing and

just get you up and running pop out

here's his URL you can use right now

Kentucky was fine ports also

yes hmm yeah I thought it would have

been in that config file I was showing

but Dayton you can pass your ports

through anyway you have anywhere you

want how does it handle once something

feels so right now for the most part

right right so if something fails how

does it handle that currently it doesn't

really it kind of falls back on a docker

to do what docker would do so now if dr.

can recover something it will land Oh as

it currently is

doesn't do what's that like once but

there's a command you say Lando restart

and it'll turn everything off turned

back on and basically get you back up

and running

yep

- Lando

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it doesn't it essentially like simulates

that the way that would work now you

don't actually even spit out a docker

compose file for you but it does allow

you if you have something that you know

you can do in Dyer compose you can

override things on your own

but yeah you don't you don't get that to

share that was just the initial like

state yeah yeah yeah so I think that I

think those might be like the initial

State for the recipe but yeah so the

question was whether or not I feel like

I could use docker dr. composed better

now that I've used lando or that I

understand it more the answer is no

because it does obfuscate it you as far

as you know you've installed Lando and

it just works yes yeah follow-up

question did you feeling

one want to know more about soccer when

this was probably more a retort question

to think about and be able to learned

about dr. dr. bodis herself to better

help yourself troubleshoot

I'm not to take over the question for

this yeah yeah if you want to have to go

ahead Paulo we're did it so so doctor is

not a precursor of learning really cool

Tiki so they can get there it's a way to

cut my keep doctor that's why I need it

now cuz usually just did the PM's you

know I had separate Center less

computerized yeah that's a copy patient

but then once I got to the doctor find

out that I can have multiple sides to

him

jaqen simple support changes but doctor

is also very complex research without

the fear factor post file if you want

second shell scripts out of it you know

and

Karpov a Libra meetup group for drupal

and this was actually one of our

discussions going back and forth for i

was talking about dr the other guys

talking about land uh we're trying to

compare it to which is why it's asking

here that question yeah so basically

yeah the the whole idea is that you you

don't need to know doctor you don't want

to know doctor it's just a dependency so

that way it's super easy to just share

your environment with your team nobody

needs to know anything

it just gets done just works yeah maybe

you're synthesizing all of these

questions if you have a project that is

already running on some hand rolled

containers is there way to import it

into the land of interface so the

question was is there a way to import an

existing Packer configuration into the

lando interface not automatically as the

answer you'd have to kind of convert

that yourself but lando does give you

the option to run your config files so

you can set up to read hey I want this I

want my app server to run this already

defined configuration you can just tell

it to a couple lines and it'll load that

instead of its own

and I think we're a little over on time

any last minute questions alright well

thank you

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