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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 Bamboo for build management


Bamboo is the continuous integration and build server from Atlassian. If your development team is using Bamboo, you can integrate it with JIRA and have your build plans as part of your release process.

Getting ready

Since we will be using Bamboo in this recipe, you will need to have a Bamboo instance running. If you do not have one, you can download a free Bamboo trial from https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo.

How to do it...

Since we are connecting to another Atlassian application here, we should take advantage of application links:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Applications | Application links.

  2. Enter your Bamboo URL, and create the application link. JIRA should automatically detect the target application as Bamboo. If, for some reason, it does not, make sure you select Bamboo as the Application type when prompted.

How it works...

Once you have integrated JIRA and Bamboo, you will be able to run and release build plans directly from JIRA. All...