Recipes

Recipes are Lando's highest level abstraction and they contain common combinations of routing, services, and tooling. Said another way, recipes are common development use cases and starting points (e.g. LAMP or Drupal 8).

Usage

You can use the top-level recipe config in your Landofile to select a recipe. Note that you will need to select one of the supported recipes from the plugins page or create your own.

For example, we will use the Drupal recipe.

recipe: drupal8

Config

You can optionally configure some of the more obvious things in your recipe such as service versions, database types and config files using the top-level config config in your Landofile.

TIP

While a decent amount config is the same from recipe to recipe, we recommend you consult the documentation for the recipe you intend to use for the full list of its config options.

For example, some of the configurable things in the LAMP recipe are shown below:

recipe: lamp
config:
  php: '5.6'
  webroot: www
  database: postgres:14
  xdebug: true
  config:
    php: config/php.ini
    database: config/mysql.cnf
    vhosts: config/vhosts.conf

Supported Recipes

Visit the plugins page for a list of available recipes.

Extending and Overriding Recipes

While the first Landofile below is totally valid and used by many people, there are even more people who set a recipe as a starting point for a more complex Landofile.

This is possible because recipes load all their stuff first. A consequence of that is that you can still mix in other services, events, routing and tooling or directly override the config provided by the recipe itself.

Service and Tooling discovery

Running lando info in your app directory is a good way to see what things your recipe offers. This is useful if you want to override or extend the things it provides, as in the example below:

That's cool bro...

name: my-app
recipe: laravel

But it would be a lot cooler if you did this

name: myapp

# Start with the lamp recipe
recipe: lamp
config:
  php: '5.6'
  webroot: www
  database: postgres

# Add additional services
services:
  cache:
    type: redis
    persist: true
  node:
    type: node:16.13

  # Override our appserver to add some environmental variables
  # This service is provided by the lamp recipe
  appserver:
    overrides:
      environment:
        WORD: covfefe

# Add additional tooling
tooling:
  redis-cli:
    service: cache
  node:
    service: node
  npm:
    service: node

WARNING

It is inadvisable to modify the type attribute of existing services in recipes, since most recipes use specialized variants of Lando's services.