At GetPantheon.com, we've built a platform embracing the nimble nature of containerized resources to achieve unprecedented supportability, margins, and elastic capacity.

1. Betting on Containers
Building a Business with Nimble Technology

2. AKA
Mo Servers, Mo Problems
Mo Servers, Mo Problems

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

6. This is what our
marketers say we
built

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

8. We did it!
300 Clients
300 VirtualMachines
300 Problems

11. 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?)

12. Doubling the devops team
From one devops
brachiosaurus
=>
two devops
brachiosauruseses
~150k containers per devops dino

13. OS Upgrades Suck
Cloud VMs get ‘weird’
Container migration FTW.
OS upgrade drops
avg server life
End of life
is a
way of life!

14. Container Migration to MariaDB
One-click migration to
convert thousands of
MySQL containers
to MariaDB

16. How do you feel about
launching our largest client
yet?
What if it was this
afternoon?

18. Let’s talk about
(not) shipping

19. Unprecedented
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Supportability/Operability
Gross Margins for Hosting
Elastic capacity

20. Thanks!
Nick Stielau
@nstielau