Managed Updates
Leverage open-source, focus on growth, and secure your baseline with fully managed WordPress and Drupal updates.
With Managed Updates, free your technical talent to manage innovation
instead of maintenance and benefit from the most widely used
open-source CMS platforms, WordPress and Drupal.

Confidently Leverage Open Source
Take advantage of the best of enterprise-grade open-source CMS—including proven code, widely available talent, and low total cost of ownership—with our full update management.

Redeploy Resources for Growth
Focus your technical resources on innovation and growth with WebOps and complete CMS update management including detection, visual regression testing, and deployment.

Secure Your Baseline With Timely Updates
Reduce your company’s web attack surface with automatic update detection and best-in-class managed updates for all your WordPress and Drupal sites.

Manage Complexity At Scale
Managed Updates extends governance to teams managing large numbers of sites, delivering significant resource recovery for maintaining website portfolios.
WEBINAR
Follow Nathan Tyler, Product Manager and Drew Gorton, Director of Developer Relations at Pantheon as they walk through strategies to mitigate the risks involved.
Managed Updates Features
Regular Update Detection
Never miss a WordPress or Drupal update with our fully automated detection technology. Managed Updates identifies core CMS releases as well as community-contributed modules and plugins to keep your site up to date.
Hands-off Visual Regression Testing (VRT)
Confidently approve updates and ensure site integrity with our exacting multiple environment testing. Validation includes testing updates in a Multidev environment and VRT fine-tuned for WordPress and Drupal sites.
Supervised Deployment
Our zero-downtime update governance extends fully to installation, with your team retaining the ability to expedite deployment and coordinate major updates with ongoing work and peak demand periods.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
International Research University Scales it’s Team and Meets Demand Surge with Managed Updates and Multidev
How It Works
Managed Updates incorporates leading technology and the experience of Pantheon’s professional services team in robustly managing CMS updates for companies of all sizes. The multistep process includes redundant testing and a full backup before updates are pushed live. Steps include:
- Automatically detect updates for Drupal and WordPress core and modules/plugins
- Updates are staged in Multidev environments to safely test them prior to applying them to your sites
- Uncover impacts to the user experience through the use of visual regression testing, fine-tuned for WordPress and Drupal
- Back up a live environment, deploy tested updates, and notify your team of changes

MULTIDEV
ENVIRONMENT
- Create MultiDev
- Apply Updates
- Automated Testing (VRT)
- Optional User Testing

DEV
ENVIRONMENT
- Automated Testing (VRT)
- Merge Updates

TEST
ENVIRONMENT
- Sync Live Environment
- Deploy Tag With Updates
- Automated Testing (VRT)

LIVE
ENVIRONMENT
- LIVE
ENVIRONMENT - Deploy Tag With Updates
- Backup Live Environment
Without Pantheon Managed Updates
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Uncertainty over who will maintain your CMS
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Potential downtime or errors for your visitors/customers
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Key team member time wasted on website maintenance and operations
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Unknown number and state of security patches resulting in vulnerabilities
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Emergency fixes to roll-back untested, problematic updates
With Pantheon Managed Updates
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Peace of mind that everything is up to date
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Confidence that site functions as expected
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More time for your team to focus on high-value work
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Enhanced security with the latest core CMS and plugin updates
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Minimal downtime with prompt management of all critical updates
Focus Your Resources on Growth
Confidently adopt open-source CMS and redeploy your resources for growth today.
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