Mo' servers Mo' problems: Using containers at GetPantheon.com

Betting on ContainersBuilding a Business with Nimble Technology

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Mo Servers, Mo ProblemsMo Servers, Mo Problems

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Pantheon, a platform for the content web, running 10s of Ks of LAMP CMS installshttps://www.getpantheon.com/customers IMAGES

This is what our marketers say we built

Let’s bundle optimized hosting along with amazing workflow tools, team management, and runtime analytics, stick it on a VM, and charge $$$!

Bro!

We did it!300 Clients300 VirtualMachines300 Problems

● We can now support Freemium!● Each site has 3+ environments● Containers for PHP-FPM, Nginx, Mount processes, MySQL DB and Redis● To 300 30GB VMs, 100,000 LAMP stacks, ~750,000 containers (TODO count?)

From one devops brachiosaurus => two devops brachiosauruseses

~150k containers per devops dino

Doubling the devops team

OS Upgrades SuckCloud VMs get ‘weird’Container migration FTW.

End of lifeis a

way of life!

OS upgrade dropsavg server life

Container Migration to MariaDB

One-click migration to convert thousands of MySQL containers to MariaDB

How do you feel about launching our largest client yet?

What if it was this afternoon?

Let’s talk about (not) shipping

Unprecedented● Supportability/Operability● Gross Margins for Hosting● Elastic capacity

Thanks!Nick Stielau@nstielau