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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
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Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Automatically releasing versions using GitHub

Version control tools allow developers to tag specific revisions of their source code, which, in effect, creates a snapshot of the repository at a point in time. The most common use for tags is to identify the source components and files that make up a particular version or release of the software and tools such as GitHub and GitLab take this a step further by allowing developers to create a release based on a particular tag. These typically consist of the list of changes applicable to this particular release in the form of release notes. They can also include links to the list of assets that make up the release, which are typically downloadable binary packages.

Releases can be created using the tool's user interface, but most commonly are created automatically by build tools such as Bitbucket Pipelines or Jenkins upon the successful completion of a deployment build. These tools can, in turn, fire webhook events to notify other...