I use drush aliases between Drupal VM and Drupal hosting services quite a bit. It was great to learn that drush site-set allows me to set the alias to use for the current session, so I don't have to type the alias name over and over again. For instance, I can set an alias like this: $ drush site-set @drupalvm.drupal8.dev, allowing me to check the status of the site on the Drupal VM with $ drush status.

To make it even easier, use is an alias for site-set. Example: $ drush use @drupalvm.drupal8.dev.

Drush site-set has some other useful options beyond setting drush aliases. Check out the options available at the link below:

https://drushcommands.com/drush-8x/core/site-set/

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