Slides from the DrupalConSF 2010 presentation by Bret Piatt (of Rackspace) and Josh Koenig (of Chapter Three) explaining how PANTHEON was developed on the Rackspace cloud

1. A Match Made In
!e Cloud
Presented by Bret Piatt & Josh Koenig
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2. Why “The Cloud”?
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3. The Cloud Is Hosting
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4. As an API
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5. Reliable, Reusable Start States.
On Demand.
Usage-based Pricing.
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7. SaaS, PaaS
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8. DaaS?
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9. "State of the Drupal" from Paris '09
Credit: Dries Buytaert
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10. Thus: PANTHEON
• Packaged Drupal server images for clouds
• First AMIs released in July 2009
• Mercury
• Aegir
• Vulcan
• Announcement at DrupalCon Paris
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11. Technical Info
Mercury is a standardized high
performance stack for Drupal. It
is available in source format, or
(soon) as an on-demand service.
It utilizes the best available
open-source technologies to
make our favorite CMS very fast
and to hold up under large
spikes in traffic.
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12. Where do we host?
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13. EC2 = “Elastic Computing Cloud”
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14. 60,000 Servers
All about hosting
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15. Why Rackspace?
• Amazon EC2 designed for "computing" not "web hosting"
• Has a lot of quirks, and a lot of features we don't need
• Slicehost already a proven Drupal hosting platform
• Good partner/tools network
• Cloud Files integration with Limelight CDN
• Integrated backups and snapshots
• CPU bursting
• Full DNS (forward and reverse)
• Console access
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16. How does it work?
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23. You
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27. Live Demo!
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28. Coming Soon?
• Image based on Ubuntu Lucid (5-year support)
• Integration with CDN: Pressflow supports necessary
changes in core to make this easy
• Drupal 7 (of course)
• Site import wizard
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29. Coming Later in 2010
• Integration with version control
• Integration with testing services (hudson, etc)
• Integration with Aegir (easy multisite)
• Monitoring / uptime alerts
• Clustering / high availability
• Customize / save builds for rapidly creating new sites
• Drupal integration with Drizzle for more efficient DB
• New data store options such as Cassandra
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30. We Have A Dream
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31. Take the guesswork out of
Development, Deployment, Hosting
and Support.
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32. Kill proprietary FUD about Drupal
performance and other risk factors.
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33. Turn Drupal into a “sure thing” for
enterprises and individuals alike.
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34. The Future Is Exciting!
• Open source development and the commodification of
infrastructure are lowering costs and expanding access
to world-class technologies.
• PANTHEON wants to help get a significant percent of
the internet running on Drupal (~5M sites).
• Drupal is continuing to develop in ways that support
more and more exciting use-cases.
• By giving people a clear path to grow, we empower
another wave of innovators.
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35. • @pantheon_drupal
• http://getpantheon.com
• http://rackspacecloud.com
• http://groups.drupal.org/pantheon
• Wednesday Night @ Brunos
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36. What did you think?
Step 1)
Locate this session on the DCSF site
h.p://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/schedule
Step 2)
Click the “Take Survey” link
Tuesday, April 20, 2010