If you have a controlled IT environment where changes need to go through development, testing/staging, and then production processes, then without a doubt, you would know how painful it is to promote JIRA configuration changes across different environments. Since JIRA does not provide a way to export configurations out of the box, all changes will need to be manually applied to each environment, which is both time consuming and error prone.

In this recipe, we will look at two options that can help to make this process easier.