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

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

Refresh failure com.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.DataProviderRefreshFailure: Data Provider refresh failed with error code 400 and message – HTTP status 400


Have you seen this error in your Jira log? If so, then you are in the right place to solve it 🙂 2019-10-10 02:03:34,970 Caesium-1-4 ERROR ServiceRunner [c.a.j.p.devstatus.provider.DefaultDevSummaryPollService] Refresh failurecom.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.DataProviderRefreshFailure: Data Provider refresh failed with error code 400 and message - HTTP status 400 ] at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.DefaultCachingProviderHelper.refreshProvider(DefaultCachingProviderHelper.java:79) at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.DefaultDevSummaryPollService.handlePollingSuccess(DefaultDevSummaryPollService.java:69) at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.DefaultDevSummaryPollService.lambda$performPull$1(DefaultDevSummaryPollService.java:51) at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.source.applink.PollResult$PollResultSuccess.fold(PollResult.java:51) at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.DefaultDevSummaryPollService.performPull(DefaultDevSummaryPollService.java:47) … Continue reading Refresh failure com.atlassian.jira.plugin.devstatus.provider.DataProviderRefreshFailure: Data Provider refresh failed with error code 400 and message – HTTP status 400

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?

Configure readinessProbe and livenessProbe for Jira Container on Kubernetes


The kubelet uses liveness probes to know when to restart a Container. For example, liveness probes could catch a deadlock, where an application is running, but unable to make progress. Restarting a Container in such a state can help to make the application more available despite bugs. The kubelet uses readiness probes to know when … Continue reading Configure readinessProbe and livenessProbe for Jira Container on Kubernetes