Tooling

Each Lando Pantheon recipe will also ship with the Pantheon toolchain. This means you can use drush, wp-cli and terminus via Lando and avoid mucking up your actual computer trying to manage php versions and tooling.

lando composer          Runs composer commands
lando db-export [file]  Exports database from a database service to a file
lando db-import <file>  Imports a dump file into a database service
lando drush             Runs drush commands
lando drupal            Runs drupal console commands
lando mysql             Drops into a MySQL shell on a database service
lando php               Runs php commands
lando pull              Pull code, database and/or files from Pantheon
lando push              Push code, database and/or files to Pantheon
lando switch            Switch to a different multidev environment
lando terminus          Runs terminus commands
lando version           Displays the lando version

Note that the above commands can differ by your recipes framework. The above are for framework: drupal8. We recommend you run lando in your app for a complete and up to date listing of your tooling.

# Login to terminus with a machine token
lando terminus auth:login --machine-token=MYSPECIALTOKEN

# Get a list of wp-cli commands
# Only available for framework: wordpress
lando wp

# Download a dependency with drush
lando drush dl views

# Download a dependency with composer
lando composer config repositories.drupal composer https://packages.drupal.org/8
lando composer require "drupal/search_api_pantheon ~1.0" --prefer-dist

# Download a backdrop dependency
lando drush dl webform

Customizing Pantheon tooling

If you would like to customize lando pull, lando push or lando switch you can do so using tooling or tooling overrides directly to achieve your specific use case. This should allow you to:

• Disable Pantheon tooling
• Provide additional pull, push or switch use cases
• Override the default pull, push or switch functionality
• Remove interactive choices

disable all commands that interact with Pantheon

tooling:
  pull: disabled
  push: disabled
  switch: disabled

add a custom, non-interactive command that only gets files and database from live

tooling:
  pull-live-data:
    service: appserver
    cmd: /helpers/pull.sh --code=none --database=live --files=live

override the default lando pull command so it never pull code

tooling:
  pull:
    description: Pull things except code
    options:
      code:
        default: none

override the default lando push command so it never pushes the database

This is a good idea

Putting database config into code via features or cmi and pushing that is consider a best practice so this is a good override for professionals.

tooling:
  push:
    description: Pro push
    options:
      database:
        default: none

Using Drush

Lando will look for a pantheon.yml (and/or pantheon.upstream.yml) in your app's root directory and will globally install whatever drush_version you've specified there. However, it will not go below Drush 8. This means that if you've specified Drush 5, Lando will still install Drush 8.

If this has not been specified then we will globally install the latest version of Drush 8 unless you are running on php 5.3 in which case we will install the latest version of Drush 7. For Backdrop sites, we will also install the latest version of Backdrop Drush.

This means that you should be able to use lando drush out of the box. That said, you can easily change the Drush installation behavior if you so desire.

If you decide to list drush as a dependency in your project's composer.json then Lando will use that one instead. You should be careful if you use Drush 9 as this is not currently officially supported by Pantheon.

Configuring your root directory

If you are using web_docroot in your pantheon.yml, you will need to remember to cd into that directory and run lando drush from there. This is because many site-specific drush commands will only run correctly if you run drush from a directory that also contains a Drupal site.

If you are annoyed by having to cd into that directory every time you run a drush command, you can get around it by overriding the drush tooling command in your Landofile so that Drush always runs from your webroot.

Note that hard coding the root like this may have unforeseen and bad consequences for some drush commands such as drush scr.

tooling:
  drush:
    service: appserver
    cmd: drush --root=/app/PATH/TO/WEBROOT

URL Setup

To set up your environment so that commands like lando drush uli return the proper URL, you will need to configure Drush in your relevant settings.php file.

Drupal 7

// Set the base URL for the Drupal site.
$base_url = "http://mysite.lndo.site"

Drupal 8

$options['uri'] = "http://mysite.lndo.site";

Using Terminus

You should be able to use terminus commands in the exact same way by prefixing them with lando (e.g. lando terminus auth:whoami).

Terminus Plugins

By default, Lando will only install terminus proper but you can add Terminus Plugins to your Landofile with a build step.

You will want to consult the relevant install instructions for each plugin but an example that installs the Terminus Build Tools plugin is shown below:

services:
  appserver:
    build:
      - mkdir -p ~/.terminus/plugins
      - composer create-project -d ~/.terminus/plugins pantheon-systems/terminus-build-tools-plugin:~1