Overriding Drupal VM's default.config.yml with config.yml¶

If available, Drupal VM will load a config.yml where you can override any of the defaults set in default.config.yml. Commonly this is a copy of default.config.yml with the values tweaked to your own project. For an easier upgrade path you would only set the values you are actually overriding.

vagrant_box: geerlingguy/centos7
vagrant_hostname: my-custom-site.dev
vagrant_machine_name: my_custom_site

Overriding variables with a local.config.yml¶

If available, Drupal VM will also load a local.config.yml after having loaded the main config.yml. Using this file you can override variables previously defined in config.yml. For teams who are sharing a VM configuration, this is a good place to configure anything that's specific to your own environment.

# Increase the memory available to your Drupal site.
vagrant_memory: 1536
php_memory_limit: "512M"

# Override the synced folders to use rsync instead of NFS.
vagrant_synced_folders:
  - local_path: .
    destination: /var/www/drupalvm
    type: rsync
    create: true

Note: The merge of the variables in these two files is shallow, so if you want to override a single item in a list, you will need to re-define all items in that list.

Extending the Vagrantfile with Vagrantfile.local¶

Out of the box Drupal VM supports having VirtualBox, Parallels as well as VMware as a provider. Besides these there are multitude of others available (for example vagrant-aws, vagrant-digitalocean).

If you want to use an unsupported provider, or otherwise modify the vagrant configuration in a way that is not exposed by Drupal VM, you can create a Vagrantfile.local in the root directory of this project.

The file will be sourced at the end of the Vagrant.configure block so you will have access to Vagrant's config.vm object as well as the contents of the config.yml file within the vconfig hash.

To add a configuration just create a Vagrantfile.local in the root like so:

config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
  # Enable GUI mode instead of running a headless machine.
  v.gui = true

  # Cap the host CPU execution at 50% usage.
  v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpuexecutioncap", "50"]
end

Example: Using the vagrant-aws provider¶

Add the following variables to your config.yml.

aws_keypair_name: 'keypair'
aws_ami: 'ami-7747d01e'
aws_tags_name: 'Drupal VM'
aws_ssh_username: 'ubuntu'
aws_ssh_private_key: '~/.ssh/aws.pem'

Create a Vagrantfile.local in the root directory of your project.

config.vm.provider :aws do |aws, override|
  override.nfs.functional = false

  aws.access_key_id = ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID']
  aws.secret_access_key = ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
  aws.keypair_name = vconfig['aws_keypair_name']
  aws.tags['Name'] = vconfig['aws_tags_name']
  aws.ami = vconfig['aws_ami']

  override.ssh.username = vconfig['aws_ssh_username']
  override.ssh.private_key_path = vconfig['aws_ssh_private_key']
end

Add the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables to your shell.

Then run vagrant up --provider=aws to provision the instance.

For additional configuration options read the Vagrant AWS Provider's README.

Example: Using Drupal VM behind a corporate proxy with vagrant-proxyconf¶

Add the following variables to your config.yml.

proxy_http: 'http://192.168.0.2:3128/'
proxy_https: 'http://192.168.0.2:3128/'
proxy_ftp: 'http://192.168.0.2:3128/'
proxy_none: 'localhost,127.0.0.1,{{ drupal_domain }}'

Create a Vagrantfile.local in the root directory of your project.

if Vagrant.has_plugin?('vagrant-proxyconf')
  config.proxy.http = vconfig['proxy_http']
  config.proxy.https = vconfig['proxy_https']
  config.git_proxy.http = vconfig['proxy_http']
  config.proxy.no_proxy = vconfig['proxy_none']
  config.proxy.ftp = vconfig['proxy_ftp']
end

For additional configuration options read Vagrant Proxyconf's README.