Is it possible to have confluence server version 7.19 hosted on PaaS services

[SB]

Hi everyone, 

I am aware that confluence server version 7.19 only support the Tomcat version that is bundled with 7.19. As per the specification on 'supported platform' documentation it states 'You can't run Confluence in your own application server'.

My requirements are such that I can only use PaaS services as far as application hosting is concerned. 

Is it possible to host confluence server version 7.19 on services PaaS services (such as Azure App Services or Azure Kubernetes services)? 

Thank you in advance for your advice.

Regards,

SB

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Early versions of Confluence could be built and the resulting web-application file deployed to any java application server (the first one I ran was deployed on Orion), but Atlassian only developed on Tomcat, and eventually stopped supporting other platforms, because their installs that bundled the Tomcat with Confluence were used 99.9% of the time.

So, no. 

In theory, you could disentangle a Confluence from its Tomcat and rebuild it so it could be deployed on another application server.  But I wouldn't try it - it's not easy, it's going to take you a long time, you'd have to re-do it for every single upgrade, and it's totally unsupporable.

If you can't deploy Confluence server as it is bundled, then I would strongly recommend you migrate to Cloud instead.

[SB]

Hi Nick, 

Yes, it makes sense. I appreciate your prompt response on this. Thank you very much for your assistance.

Regards,

SB