Confluence 6.14.1 installation problems on Amazon PostgreSQL RDS & kubernetes

[Neven Miculinić]

I've tried installing confluence so many times, beyond counting. And each time it fails miserably.

Latest attempt:

https://pastebin.com/xsjGFYHA

https://pastebin.com/Pw7GZ2UR

Database setup (9.6.11 postgresql):

CREATE USER confluence;
CREATE database confluence WITH ENCODING 'UNICODE' LC_COLLATE 'en_GB.UTF8' LC_CTYPE 'en_GB.UTF8' TEMPLATE template0;
drop database confluence;

ALTER user confluence with encrypted password '<password>';
grant all privileges on database confluence to confluence;

Kubernetes manifest: https://pastebin.com/VVvf598k

I've tried both 

* cptactionhank/atlassian-confluence:6.14.1

* atlassian/confluence-server images:6.14.1

images (( they have some differences, though not much, some folder where they mount confluence data dir and some env variables )). 

DNS works ok; database connection works ok; Jira works ok with `cptactionhank/atlassian-jira-software:7.13.1` image and similar database setup. But not confluence. Confluence is a tough nut to crack and deploy. This is before any data importing for this migration; license works ok, but it just keeps crashing with miles long stack traces. 

[Daniel Eads]

Hey Neven,

A quick run through your manifest shows Confluence only has 1GB of allocated heap. This might be the cause of some woes - increasing to 2G or above is probably a good start.

Have a look at https://github.com/Bonn93/atlassian-kubernetes which has a Confluence manifest that you can reference.

While Atlassian doesn't officially support kubernetes deployments currently, we do have official CloudFormation templates and are interested in making sure you can get Confluence running! I'm hopeful that the repo above will get you pointed in the right direction.

Cheers,
Daniel