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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

Getting Started with Jira Data Center

In this chapter, we will start by providing a high-level overview of Jira, the various products that run on top of the platform, and then introduce Jira Data Center. After that, we will examine the various deployment options and system requirements for hosting Jira Data Center yourself. Finally, we will get our hands dirty by installing our very own Jira Data Center from scratch, both as a standalone and a clustered deployment.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the Jira platform
  • Introducing Jira Data Center
  • System requirements
  • Installation package options
  • Installing and configuring Jira
  • Post-installation configuration
  • Clustering
  • Zero-downtime upgrade

By the end of the chapter, you will have learned about the Jira platform and the new Data Center product. You will also learn about the system requirements to install Jira, and how a Jira cluster works. Finally, you will have your own Jira instance up and running.