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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)
1
Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
4
Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how using automation rules can help us with DevOps practices by optimizing our development and operations processes.

We have covered how to use the built-in DevOps automation triggers available in Jira Cloud to integrate with our source repositories, such as Bitbucket or GitHub. This allows us to keep development issues in Jira in sync with the code as it is committed to the source repository.

In addition, we have also learned how we can achieve similar integrations when using Jira Server or Data Center by using incoming webhooks in our rules in place of the DevOps triggers available to Jira Cloud.

Next, we learned how we could use the DevOps pull request triggers available in Jira Cloud to automatically synchronize the development tasks in Jira. We also learned how to create and manage tracking tasks, which provide greater visibility into the overall development process within Jira.

We then learned how, when using GitHub to manage...