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Overview With the increasing demands and the advantages of Cloud technologies, moving Jira to Cloud is definitely inevitable regardless it is self-hosted Jira in Cloud (IaaS) or Atlassian Jira Cloud (SaaS). As our current project is to migrate Jira to AWS cloud, I will be focus on the challenges vs solutions to run Jira in … Continue reading Run Jira on AWS – Challenges vs Solutions
I wrote a blog about How Confluence Data Center Manages Index Files. Now let's have a quick look how Jira manages index files. Comparing to Confluence, Jira manages index files in a quite different way. In a multiple nodes Jira Data Center cluster, each node keeps the index files locally and tries to reach eventual … Continue reading How Jira Data Center manages Index Files
Today I upgraded a non-prod Jira environment from 7.13.x to the latest LTS version 8.5.8. And unfortunately Jira failed to start after the upgrade. It turns out that the SSL configuration for database connection has changed in 8.5. So Jira could not connect to database with the old configuration. For JIRA 7.13 / postgreSQL driver … Continue reading Jira SSL Database Connection Configuration Changed in 8.5
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’
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
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