What is the recommended way of triggering a Bamboo deployment plan from a JIRA release?

Thanks Mike - but this means that you can't use automatic builds, as they will then trigger the deployment.

The work around that seems best is the use automatic builds with a "dummy" manual stage, so the builds complete all the real work, but pause rather than completing. A JIRA release can then select that build to finish - with a deployment plan containing an automatic trigger as you suggest.

However, I'm sure Atlassian have plans to make this integration a little tighter - rather than requiring a work around - is there an issue we can watch to track progress on this?

You can configure triggers in your deployment plan environments to automatically deploy when a build is successful. So you could get JIRA to trigger a build and get that build to trigger the deployment to an environment, e.g. the first environment in your deployment pipeline.

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Ok, so JIRA doesn't currently support this natively. Are there plans for this? It would make sense to me, as this appears to be a reduction in functionality if you use Bamboo deployment plans - which surely isn't the intention.

You can write a JIRA listener that kicks of the deployment plan in Bamboo. Need some dev effort!