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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

This new and improved sixth edition comes with the latest Jira 8.21 Data Center offerings, with enhanced features such as clustering, advanced roadmaps, custom field optimization, and tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. This comprehensive guide to Jira 8.20.x LTS version provides updated content on project tracking, issue and field management, workflows, Jira Service Management, and security. The book begins by showing you how to plan and set up a new Jira instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, and business processes. You’ll also get to grips with Jira’s data hierarchy and design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book will help you understand the different issues that can arise in your projects. As you advance, you’ll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. Workflows, business processes, and guides on setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers will be covered alongside Jira’s security model and Jira Service Management. Toward the end, you’ll learn how Jira capabilities are extended with third-party apps from Atlassian marketplace. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have understood core components and functionalities of Jira and be able to implement them in business projects with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Jira
4
Part 2: Jira in Action
9
Part 3: Advanced Jira

Enabling SSO with SAML

If your organization uses SAML for SSO, you can also configure Jira to participate in the SAML session so that your users will not need to log in to Jira every time they try to access the application. Also, if you have configured your SAML identity provider (IdP) with two-factor authentication (2FA) for additional security, Jira gets that benefit as well.

The one pre-requisite for enabling SAML SSO with Jira is that you must run Jira on Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). If you have not configured your Jira setup to do so, please refer to Chapter 1, Getting Started with Jira Data Center, for details.

To enable SAML SSO with Jira, proceed as follows:

  1. Browse to the Jira administration console.
  2. Select the System tab and then Authentication methods, which will take you to the page shown here:

Figure 9.22 – Authentication methods page

  1. Click on the Add configuration button.
  2. Enter a name for the...