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Confluence Plugins replication in Dev Instance

Kanaka Ponnuru Prasad

Hi Team,

We are in process to Confluence upgrade activity and for that we are doing latest Prod sync up with Dev instance.

When I start my pre-checks related to Plugin compatibility I found few plugins are available in Dev instance compared to Prod.

So do I need to install all the Addons as per the prod? If so do I need to go for valid license or free trail is enough?

Thanks in Advance!

BR,

Kanaka

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Karim ABO HASHISH

Hi @Kanaka Ponnuru Prasad

If the plugins' status for the pre-check on Dev looks good, then no need to worry about plugins' differences. Generally, I would recommend installing plugins on prod only if they are needed and will be used.

I would recommend doing the pre-checks on prod as well before upgrading the dev, so you complete your overall upgrade plan.

Your best companion is Atlassian reference for confluence upgrade which covers also the planning phase (Select the target version for the upgrade)

It's also worth to mention to check the ensure that you have the same platform for both instances. you can refer to this link (Select the target version for the upgrade)

Good luck and let us know if you still have any questions.

Kanaka Ponnuru Prasad

Hi @Karim ABO HASHISH ,

I think you did not get my question properly.

I am not talking about installing plugins on Prod instance, I mean there are 5 plugins on Dev instance where as in Prod I noticed that there are 20 plugins more compared to Dev.

So here my question is we are replicating the data from prod to Dev instance, are we going to get plugin data as well from prod to Dev instance or not?

If plugin won't replicated means do I need to install remaining 15 plugins on Dev instance? Why because we don't want to face any issues while we are doing actual upgrade on Prod instance. If the plugin data same between prod and dev instance we can identify the issues while doing upgrade on Dev instance.

I hope this time I am more clear on my requirement.

Thank you!

Karim ABO HASHISH

Hi @Kanaka Ponnuru Prasad

Thanks a lot for the elaboration, it's now clyster clear for me.

Ok, in this case the best practice is to make the Dev instance on the same level as the prod instance. i.e., same plugins same versions.

As the extra plugins exist in prod, it means that you already have a commercial license. In this case, you can obtain a Free Dev license on top the commercial one which never expires and can be used for as many Dev instances as you need.

To obtain your Dev license for each plugin, please log in to Licenses - My Atlassian with your customer account, expand each plugin and get your developer license.
Installing new plugins on Dev, will apply the latest version. As a best practice, you can try to update all plugins on prod to the latest version then install the difference in Dev and update the 5 existing plugins (assuming you have the same confluence version on both).
Now you can re-do the pre-upgrade check on both platforms.

Hope this time my answer would be helpful in your context.

Cheers,

Karim

Kanaka Ponnuru Prasad

Hi @Karim ABO HASHISH ,

Thank you for response.

Here my understandings are I need to install all the 15 plugins on Dev Instance and apply the same license as Prod, ok so I will proceed to install the plugins on Dev then.

Thank you!

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