No more binary installers?!

[K-IT Team]

Hi,

looking at https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-10-3-x-upgrade-notes-1472791008.html there seem to be plans to discontinue the binary installers for Jira (which get reverted for Jira 10.3 but not for any of the latest versions).

For us that would be a major setback as it would greatly increase the time needed to upgrade out Data Center server.

Could anyone from Atlassian please explain what the current plan is and why you think this is good for the customer?

Hopefully someone in charge can reconsider this plan, and at the very least provide installers for the LTS versions?

[Charlie Misonne]

There is a longer discussion on the feature request: JRASERVER-78049 

I know you also commented there but I'm sharing this for anyone reading this post.

I could not find any info about the specific reasons of Atlassian to discontinue the installers.

Personally I can think of many reasons not to use the installers but for smaller, not-automated setups I understand why people like using these.

[K-IT Team]

So is the discontinuation of the binary installer a final decision already?

[Charlie Misonne]

Well the decision to bring it back was only made for 10.3.

Atlassian explicitly says there is no binary installer for 10.4, 10.5 and any versions after those. I think we have to accept this fact.

If you want to automate your upgrade process there are tools like Ansible, Puppet, Docker, ... that can do the job.
Of course these come with extra technical requirements and knowledge.