As we consider moving our Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket instances (which are behind our firewall and not available to the internet) to the Cloud hosted versions, what's a recommended way to handle what is currently our internal 'public' access to reference information (non-contributors) to our network users? Currently, we have about 25-30 users that create and manage content (primarily Confluence), and about 250 other users on our network that reference or view it.
By going to the Cloud hosted version, will we have to get licenses for the 250 reference users to be able to continue to access the information since this is internal business process info and not meant for the entire Internet to view, or is there another solution I haven't found yet? A shared Guest login, limiting access by IP, or some other scheme?
So far, our setup has mostly been used for our internal developers, a few departmental managers, and a handful of vendors. Going from 30 - 300 licenses is quite a jump, plus Access on top of it to sync AD is going to put the move out of our reach.
Any insights or explanations are greatly appreciated -- Mike
