On your local OSX environment using Terminal or iTerm you can create a MySQL database, database user, and password, as well as, assign all privileges to the user for the database. Knowing your credentials, before beginning you will need to know the following: user: {user} password: {password} database: {database} For my local environment, I'll be using these credentials user root password root database safs   Walkthrough the steps to build your database: The initial step is to...

Changes in your .env file Connecting your app to the new environment you need to make some tweaks in your .env file. Change your DB_HOST to database. If you use MySQL or MariaDB Lando will create a database named laravel for you with a user laravel and the password laravel. The database section in your .env should look like this: DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=database DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=laravel DB_USERNAME=laravel DB_PASSWORD=laravelIf you use Postgres the settings should look like...