JIRA SSL support, native feature or add-on?

[Asim Rahman]

Hi everyone,

I am looking into JIRA Software Cloud as a bug reporting/tracking solution. I had a question specifically about the SSL support in JIRA.

I've seen multiple sources suggest that a JIRA add-on exists to implement SSL functionality for a web server.

This link suggests that the SSL configuration can be done over the JIRA configuration tool (which i believe comes built-in with the JIRA cloud option):

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/running-jira-applications-over-ssl-or-https-861253906.html

Could someone clarify what exactly is required to configure SSL encryption for JIRA? Is it a native feature built-in to the software, or is an add-on required? Are there any additional tools need for SSL?

Thank you

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It's not quite "support for SSL in Jira".

Jira itself does not do SSL (although you have found apps which add some related functions).  The Tomcat it runs on can do SSL though, and the Jira/Tomcat fully support having SSL done by proxy as well.

For Cloud, you don't need to do anything, it's already configured for SSL.