Zero to hero in Server/Data Center management

Houssein Barkallah

Hello everyone.

I've been an Atlassian admin for cloud products for 4 years now.
Jira, JSM, Confluence, Bitbucket, OpsGenie, all in Cloud.

I have 0 IT studies background and I embarked on this experience by chance.

Now I need to switch to Server/Data Center as I'm changing jobs, but I need help.

What should I learn to be able to handle my new tasks properly ? 

Thank you.

Kristján Geir Mathiesen

Hi @Houssein Barkallah 

If you are no going to be the Linux/db admin, then the transition isn't so crazy. Sure, you will have to find some features in different places on Server/DC but the core functionality is the same. Some of your admin experience is even going to be better, for example how you can show custom fields by field type in Server/DC and you will now get Priority Schemas

Speaking of custom fields, you will have to pay more attention to them and try to keep the number of them down since they very much so affect the performance. Backup will be in your hands (or the Linux/db admin). You might want to practice more in a sandbox when building/testing new apps and schemas. And you the Atlassian Support will not be your default/first to look to. It will be you now, but you can of course still create support tickets.

I encourage you to join the Data Center group and the Enterprise group here in the Community, if you haven't already.

HTH and good luck. You can do this!
KGM