Tag: AWS

Setup a Rolling Update Toggle for AWS Auto Scaling Group


Rolling update (handled by UpdatePolicy attribute) is a great feature in AWS Auto Scaling Group. With this feature, we are able to making changes without downtime. For example, replace existing instances one by one. By design, NOT every change of the Auto Scaling Group can trigger a rolling update. Only the changes made to LaunchConfigurationName, … Continue reading Setup a Rolling Update Toggle for AWS Auto Scaling Group →

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 →

CICD Design for Atlassian Suites in AWS


I have been working on a project of migrating Atlassian suites (Confluence/Jira/...) to AWS. This is not a simple lift and shift migration. We actually redesigned everything from ground up. Here is the CICD that I designed. The source codes are stored in on-premise BitBucket, the build tools is AWS Dev Tools (mainly CodeBuild). Development … Continue reading CICD Design for Atlassian Suites in AWS →