Category: Atlassian

Reindex Jira Data Center without downtime on Kubernetes


There are two ways to reindex Jira Data Center without downtime on Kubernetes. My Jira cluster runs a statefulSet in kubernetes. The configuration details: https://gist.github.com/jc1518/e6ec84f01e4fbe2e5517a02ed38b24ca DON'T use the following methods if you have livenessProbe to monitor the /status. As your pod may get killed when it is doing the re-indexing. You should monitor / for … Continue reading Reindex Jira Data Center without downtime on Kubernetes →

Run Jira Data Center on Kubernetes Part Two


Continue with the part one, let's do some configurations. As the folder /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/shared-home does not exist in the offical Jira image, we need to create it manually in the container or fork the repository and modify the Dockerfile to create it. You should have one pod called jira-0 running now if you did everything correctly … Continue reading Run Jira Data Center on Kubernetes Part Two →

Replace Flannel with Weave Net in Kubernetes


The major reason that I replaced Flannel with Weave Net as the Kubernetes CNI is that Flannel does not support multicast. I did not realize it until my test Confluence DC cluster became dysfunctional. There are two Confluence nodes in the Confluence DC cluster. Each one is a pod, they are working fine when they … Continue reading Replace Flannel with Weave Net in Kubernetes →