Drupal and Cloud Containers

www.getpantheon.com@getpantheon

Drupal & ContainersPNWDS, Vancouver BC

October 5, 2013

Josh Koenig - Pantheon Co-Founder [email protected]

@outlandishjosh

Tuesday, October 8, 13

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Four years ago, I was on the road talking

about “Drupal in the Cloud”









I was wrong. Sort of.





EC2 is HostingTuesday, October 8, 13




Digital Ocean is HostingTuesday, October 8, 13




Rackspace is Hosting (duh)Tuesday, October 8, 13




Or, more specifically, they’re all ways to get

Virtual Machines.





But True Cloud Means Never Having to Say The Word “Server”





FTP Server?









Mail Servers?













Astrisk Server?









CRM Server?









Ok. We get it.





How do we do it?





The future of Drupal in the Cloud belongs to Containers, not VMs.

















Basically, you’re looking at various mechanisms that do multi-tenancy.









Without Sucking









Site A Site B Site n

Common Codebase

Mysql DB Server

Database A

Database B

Database n





Site A Site B Site n

Common Codebase

Mysql DB Server

Database A

Database B

Database n

CPUContention

Block I/OContention









Engineers @google got cgoups into the kernel

in 2007.









But others are coming!









(demo)









(demo)





LMCTFY









(demo)





Convergence is occurring.





Hard problems remain for Drupal and other

web applications.





Stateful Data Is Hard.Tuesday, October 8, 13




Workflow.





Tuning, libraries, etc.Tuesday, October 8, 13















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Drupal and Cloud Containers