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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Integrating JIRA with Bitbucket Cloud and GitHub


Bitbucket Cloud is Atlassian's cloud-based code repository service. It provides public and private code repositories, with support for both Git and Mercurial. It provides a great option for organizations that want to move to DVCS, but do not want to deal with the infrastructure overhead.

In this recipe, we will look at how to integrate our on-premise hosted JIRA with Bitbucket in the cloud.

Getting ready

Since we will be using Bitbucket in this recipe, you need to have a Bitbucket account (both Git and Mercurial repositories will work). If you do not have one, you can sign up for a free account at https://bitbucket.org.

How to do it...

The first step is to create a new consumer in Bitbucket for JIRA, which will generate the consumer key and secret, as follows:

  1. Log in to your Bitbucket account.

  2. Navigate to Bitbucket settings | OAuth.

  3. Click on the Add consumer button under OAuth consumers.

  4. Enter a name for the new OAuth consumer. The name you enter here...