Category: Atlassian

Access Specific EC2 behind ALB


When there are multiple EC2 instances running behind the application load balancer, there is no way (at least as the time of writing) to tell the load balancer which instance you want to use. It is all controlled by the pre-defined load_balancing.algorithm.type. load_balancing.algorithm.type - The load balancing algorithm determines how the load balancer selects targets when routing … Continue reading Access Specific EC2 behind ALB →

Atlassian Application Links Failed with ‘NETWORK ERROR’


We have struggled with making Atlassian Application Links work with our reverse proxy of the Atlassian applications (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket...) for a long time. The architecture is a very common setup: Users -> Reverse Proxy (webseal virtual junctions) -> Atlassian Application (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket...) For example, if user types https://confluence.mydomain.com, the traffics go to the … Continue reading Atlassian Application Links Failed with ‘NETWORK ERROR’ →

Stale node ids should automatically be removed in Jira Data Center


Finally finally ... Atlassian takes action on this one since reported 5 years ago. As stated in the 8.10.x release notes, Jira 8.10.0 and later now is able to remove stale node automatically. We've introduced automation to your cluster maintenance. Now, you do not have to remove the offline nodes from your cluster manually, or … Continue reading Stale node ids should automatically be removed in Jira Data Center →

Run Jira Data Center in AWS – Part One


Jira is a stateful application, it requires persistent storage for both database and the shared home folder. And actually it is more complicated than it looks, e.g local index file, index files for some addons, nodes records etc. But it does not mean that you cannot run Jira in a dynamic environment, like AWS Auto … Continue reading Run Jira Data Center in AWS – Part One →

Confluence BootstrapException: Unable to bootstrap application: Failed to parse config file


One of our newly built Confluence stacks failed to start, and the error message is as below: BootstrapException: Unable to bootstrap application: Failed to parse config file: Error on line 19 of document : The reference to entity "k" must end with the ';' delimiter. Nested exception: The reference to entity "k" must end with … Continue reading Confluence BootstrapException: Unable to bootstrap application: Failed to parse config file →