how-to-use-drupal-console-in-a-remote-installation.md

How to use Drupal Console in a remote site installation

Drupal Console allows you to run commands on your local server but actually execute them on a remote server.

You can take advantage of this feature, using the --target option and passing the remote site name you want to interact with.

drupal --target=sample.dev cr all

Setting up your local computer to use a remote site requires a little configuration.

Edit global configuration

You can provide global configuration to remote connections at the copied file ~/.console/config.yml. This information is grouped within the remote key.

application:
  ...
  remote:
    user: root
    port: 22
    console: /usr/local/bin/drupal
    options:
    arguments:
    keys:
      public: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
      private: ~/.ssh/id_rsa
      passphrase: ~/.ssh/passphrase.txt

Edit specific site configuration

You can provide specific site configuration by duplicating the copied site file at ~/.console/sites/sample.yml with a new name at ~/.console/sites/.

local:
  root: /var/www/drupal8.dev
  host: local
dev:
  root: /var/www/html/drupal
  host: 140.211.10.62
  user: drupal
prod:
  root: /var/www/html/docroot
  host: live.drupal.org
  user: drupal
  console: /var/www/html/docroot/console.phar

Debug sites.

You can list all known local and remote sites by executing the site:debug command.

drupal site:debug

+--------------------+-----------------+------------------------+
| Site               | Host            | Root                   |
+--------------------+-----------------+------------------------+
| sample.local       | local           | /var/www/drupal8.dev   |
| sample.dev         | 140.211.10.62   | /var/www/html/drupal   |
| sample.prod        | live.drupal.org | /var/www/html/docroot  |
+--------------------+-----------------+------------------------+

You can show the site configuration details by passing the site name as argument to the site:debug command.

drupal site:debug sample.dev

user: drupal
port: 22
console: /usr/local/bin/drupal
options:
arguments: 
keys:
    public: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
    private: ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    passphrase: ~/.ssh/passphrase.txt
root: /var/www/html/drupal
host: 140.211.10.62
remote: true

NOTE: As you may notice the global configuration and the specific site configuration are merged when debugging a site. You can override any global configuration by adding those keys on the site specific configuration.