Automating the deployment of JIRA tasks

[Kevin Côté]

Hi,

Our team is new with JIRA and we would like to be able to automate the deployment of a project with pre-defined epics and tasks. We would like to only define a project name and then the script will deploy all the epics/tasks based on the template.

Is it possible to do that in JIRA ? What scripting plugin/language should I use to automate such task ? Python or C# would be our preferred language if it is possible. 

I've just found the Atlassian SDK for .Net. It looks like it would be possible to a Desktop application which connects to JIRA and creates the tasks. Is it the most effective way of achieving that ?

Thank you !

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

As far as I understand, beside importing tasks you also need to create a project by your custom template. If so, then you can develop a plugin to do it, but it would be simpler to use an add-on like Adaptavist Project Configurator. You could prepare required by you project in a Jira instance and then you would import it to an instance you need.