Josh Koenig on Pantheon and Automating Deployment Best Practices

Josh Koenig (aka joshk) is a long-time Drupal contributor and founder of Chapter 3 and the Pantheon project. Recently, the Pantheon project raised $1.3 million dollars, which has allowed Koenig, David Strauss, Matt Cheney and Zack Rosen to work full time on creating a toolset that helps implement Drupal deployment best practices with git and an intuitive user interface to help manage your development, staging and live servers.

Koenig talks about a lot of the different features of Pantheon, which was originally an open source Amazon web image called Mercury (as described here by Koenig at DrupalCon San Francisco. But now Pantheon is more of a hosted solution geared to make Drupal developer's lives a lot easier by allowing developers to focus on doing what they do best, which is developing Drupal sites and not doing a lot of the system administration tasks and managing best practice development environment infrastructures.

Pantheon was announcing a private beta at DrupalCon, and will be working with a small community of developers to get it ready for a public launch presumably sometime later this year.