From looking over your Vagrantfile it looks like the project files are mounted from the host into the VM so ssh would only be required for tunneling to the db connection? (Although that can also be avoided by exposing a port or using bridged networking).

The biggest issue I've found with this kind of setup is that file change events from the host don't cascade to the virtual machine using VirtualBox's shared folders. NFS handles this better (still seconds delay based on cache values) but that is then a problem for Windows users.

It's been a few years since I switched to using Linux natively so my knowledge on Docker for Desktop Mac mount strategies may be out of date, but at one point docker introduced options such as :cached and :delegated which can have a considerable improvement to container file access speeds. Additionally, I've heard of people using mutagen and nfs for significant improvements, but I've never tried that setup. Here's a long discussion about it: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1592#issuecomment-6...