---
title: "Josh Koenig on Pantheon and Automating Deployment Best Practices"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/josh-koenig-on-pantheon-and-automating-deployment-best-practices"
type: episode
date: 2011-04-22
updated: 2014-02-06
---

# Josh Koenig on Pantheon and Automating Deployment Best Practices

#  Josh Koenig on Pantheon and Automating Deployment Best Practices 

  

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Josh Koenig (aka [joshk](http://drupal.org/user/3313)) is a long-time Drupal contributor and founder of Chapter 3 and the [Pantheon project](https://pantheon.io/). 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](https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupal-voices-134-josh-koenig-on-cloud-hosting-with-pantheon). 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.