Access Jira API using OAuth2 Authorization Code Flow

[Seethalakshmi V]

Hi Team, 

We have onpremises jira data centre at our office. We would like to access jira api's using Oauth2 Authorization Code flow. We use Azure as the authentication provider. We want to access rest api using user credentials to provide more security. 

Could you please help us achieving this requirement?

[Gunjan Kumar]

Hi Seethalakshmi,

Jira Data Center (on-premises) does not support OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code (3LO) flow for accessing Jira REST APIs like Jira Cloud does.

Jira Data Center’s OAuth 2.0 support is mainly for application integrations and linking, not for issuing OAuth2 tokens that external applications can use to call REST APIs.

For REST API access in Jira Data Center, Atlassian officially supports:

• OAuth 1.0a
• Basic Authentication / Personal Access Tokens

If OAuth2 with Azure AD is mandatory, a custom proxy or marketplace app would be required.

References:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/jira-oauth-2-0-provider-api-1115659070.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracore/setting-up-oauth-2-0-integration-1005784173.html
• https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/oauth/