Drupal VM has experimental support for deploying Drupal VM to a production environment. The security of your servers is your responsibility.

For a configuration example and instructions on how to build a Drupal environment with Drupal VM on DigitalOcean see the examples/prod directory and README.

Production specific overrides.¶

Drupal VM supports loading configuration files depending on the environment variable DRUPALVM_ENV and using this feature you can have different configurations between development and production environments.

# Loads vagrant.config.yml if available (default).
vagrant provision

# Loads prod.config.yml if available.
DRUPALVM_ENV=prod vagrant provision --provisioner=aws

If you're issuing a provision directly through ansible-playbook as you would do for most production environments you can either set the DRUPALVM_ENV variable on your host, or on the remote production machine.

# By default it doesn't try to load any other config file.
ansible-playbook -i examples/prod/inventory provisioning/playbook.yml --sudo --ask-sudo-pass

# Loads prod.config.yml if available.
DRUPALVM_ENV=prod ansible-playbook -i examples/prod/inventory provisioning/playbook.yml --sudo --ask-sudo-pass

If you add DRUPALVM_ENV=prod to the /etc/environment file on your production environment:

# Loads prod.config.yml if available.
ansible-playbook -i examples/prod/inventory provisioning/playbook.yml --sudo --ask-sudo-pass

Note: Having the variable set locally takes precedence over having it on the remote machine.