Tag: Confluence

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’ →

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 →

How Confluence Data Center Manage the Index File?


When building Confluence Data Center on AWS, I was wondering how Confluence Data Centre manages the index file. As we run Confluence cluster in auto-scaling group, the Confluence nodes come and go (not that frequent though, as Confluence is not good at dynamic scaling. It is more schedule based scaling). The newly launched instance gets … Continue reading How Confluence Data Center Manage the Index File? →