Managed Updates
Managed Updates offerings and requirements for Drupal compatibility
Managed Updates is a service offered by our Professional Services team. We help keep your site updated so you can focus on what's important. Learn more about Managed Updates in the Managing Updates for WordPress and Drupal webinar
With Pantheon Managed Updates (PMU), you get:
- CMS core updates
- Module / plugin updates
- Visual Regression Testing (VRT)
To make Managed Updates available to customers of all sizes and needs, Pantheon offers three versions: Premium, Lite, and Portfolio Upstreams.
Premium
Managed Updates Premium is for standalone sites and includes support for custom workflows, testing, and CI/build processes. Premium also offers personalized update issue remediation, and email notifications when updates are scheduled. Sites using Pantheon's Integrated Composer for Drupal are also supported.
Lite
Managed Updates Lite is for standard sites on Pantheon, and offers basic CMS and plugin updates (with visual regression testing) on a customizable schedule. It's for WordPress or Drupal sites that use the standard Pantheon WebOps workflow, or Drupal sites using a Composer-build workflow without continuous integration processes.
Portfolio Upstreams
Managed Updates for Portfolio Upstreams provides core, plugin, and module updates for customers managing site collections using Custom Upstreams.
Requirements
- Sites use Pantheon’s update workflow
- Codebase changes are pushed to client's remote repo and then applied to each of the sites
- Build step does not rely on 3rd-party sources
- No other special deployment instructions
- Drupal 7 or WordPress 5.4 or above
Product Comparison Table
| Feature | Description | Managed Updates Portfolio Upstreams | Managed Updates Lite | Managed Updates Premium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core, plugin, and module updates | Full code updates from publicly accessible repositories and sources. | |||
| Regular update detection | Daily scans of official repositories to detect when updates are available. | |||
| Visual Regression Testing | VRT for every environment through which changes are deployed. | |||
| Custom deployment scheduling | Adjustable scheduling for the deployment of core, plugin, and module updates. | ❌ | ||
| Standalone sites | Maintenance of logically distinct and/or customized sites. | ❌ | ||
| Workflow customization | Support for bespoke site update workflows. | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Remote pull requests to external repositories | Receive pull requests for successful updates that can be accepted at your convenience. | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Personalized update issue remediation | Expert support for remediating update and deployment issues. | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Headless site support | Updates for headless and decoupled sites. | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Custom build/CI process | Updates for sites using custom CI or build processes. | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Patched code support | Preserves patched code in applied updates. | Test and Deploy Only | Drupal 7 sites excluded | |
| Custom VRT | VRT for authenticated pages or custom DOM elements. | ❌ | ❌ |