How to set up staging environment plugins

Michael Presutt1

Hi,

I'm in the process of setting up a JIRA staging environment and following the 'Establishing staging server environments for JIRA applications' guide.

The question I have is, will copying over the JIRA data directory from production, with all the plugins cause a problem with the plugin license? What will happen if I start staging JIRA with these plugins?

Or should I install the plugins in the staging env first ( registered with a dev license ) and then copy over the production data dir?

 I don't want to knock out my production Tempo, Folio, Agile, and Zephir plugins when I start the staging environment.

 

Thanks.

 

 

George Dinkov _Botron_

Hi Michael,

Usually it's best to have the add-ons installed first on the staging in order to be able to restore their data from production.

Even if you do it the other way, the production add-ons shouldn't get knocked out, but they might know work properly on staging.

For implementing the test->stage->prod process you can check our Configuration Manager for JIRA add-on - this is one of the main jobs it was developed for.

Cheers!