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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By : Gareth Cantrell
Book Image

Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By: Gareth Cantrell

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira makes it easier to track the progress of your projects, but it can lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teams. No-code automation will enable you to increase productivity by automating these tasks. Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You will start by learning how automation in Jira works, along with discovering best practices for writing automation rules. Then you’ll be introduced to the building blocks of automation, including triggers, conditions, and actions, before moving on to advanced rule-related techniques. After you’ve become familiar with the techniques, you’ll find out how to integrate with external tools, such as GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, all without writing a single line of code. Toward the end, you’ll also be able to employ advanced rules to create custom notifications and integrate with external systems. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of automation rules and learned how to use them to automate everyday tasks in Jira without using any code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
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Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Chapter 8: Integrating with DevOps Tools

One of the core tenets of DevOps, beyond cultivating the associated culture within your organization, is the practice of automating and optimizing processes through the use of technology. Using automation rules in Jira, we can optimize the process of software development by connecting DevOps tools such as Bitbucket and GitHub to issues in Jira, thereby allowing us to synchronize the status of issues automatically.

Beyond keeping issue statuses automatically synchronized to code commits, we can also make use of automation to keep track of and synchronize pull requests, create tasks to track these, and send notifications to the team to ensure maximum visibility of the process. All of this enables developers to spend more time focused on writing and delivering software and less time managing administrative tasks.

While integration with certain DevOps processes has been (and still is) possible in Jira using workflow triggers, in this chapter...