Need more information about federating a Jira instance

[charliesobel]

I am part of a large organization. For budgetary and administrative reasons, my office has purchased licences on the Jira Server account of another office in our organization. We are using Jira Server 8.4.

In order to use Jira to the extent that my office originally intended, I would need to be a Jira Admin (though not a System Admin). However, that would give me the ability to see the content of a project that belongs to a third office, which is a problem.

I have read the documentation and community questions about federating instances, but still have some questions that I'm hoping someone has more information on:

1) Would federating solve our problem, which is that I need to be able to fully administer projects, users, schemes, etc. for my office while simultaneously not being able to see the content associated with other offices?

2) What is the level of effort associated with implementing federation? This documentation page gives a lot of information about reasons to federate and some of the features, but it doesn't provide information on how to do the initial setup.

[JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_]

Hi,

with federation you simply have two or more Jira server sharing some resources like LDAP/Active Directory for a common user base or a federated acitivity stream between the instances.

Every server is managed / administered separately & will need is own license (user count can be different between the servers).

As stated in the document: This comes not out of the box & must be considered a unique setup. 

Federation would solve your problem, but might lead to other problems not on your screen right now. You might want to establish a SSO (Single Sign On) solution. Otherwise you will have to login on each server.

How to start: Setup a new Jira server, connect it to the shared resources, create applinks between the servers & try to figure out your specific needs.

Best

JP