3rd party / vendors access for to Atlassian for development (SDLC)

Katherine Lord

Looking to solve - we are looking to onboard 3rd party dev / vendors.  In our JIra we have enterprise roadmaps, all work (Epics, Stories etc), linked to GitHub etc.

 

How would you integrate these 3rd parties / vendors?

• Have them use your Jira instance and processes?
• Integrate maybe via API to their Jira instance?
• Is there a way to work via a portal?

 

Open to ideas.

Bobby Bailey

Hi @Katherine Lord 

What you are looking to achieve here (integrating multiple Jira/Github instances) is possible with Stitch It, the new integration tool from the people behind ScriptRunner. 

Stitch It allows you to create connections to the tools you are looking to integrate with our feature called Managed Connections. Here you can create connections to multiple Jira and Github instances, and Stitch will then manage those connections for you, so you need not worry about managing them after the initial connection is made. 

Stitch It then allows you to create Workspaces, in which you write scripts that communicate to your tools through REST APIs. We have a feature called Managed API that makes writing code for this much easier. 

You can configure your Workspace to run scripts in one of three ways, manually, listeners, or scheduled. With Listeners, you can listen to events from Jira or Github and then execute scripts that communicate with other instances. 

So, for your use case, it would be possible to create connections to each separate Jira/ Github instance, create Workspace(s) that listen for events from each instance and write scripts that communicate with your other instances. Being able to write code gives you the flexibility to write any business logic you need. 

You also have room to expand to other tool sets if you onboard anyone who used a different tool set, as Stitch It supports multiple tools, and has the Generic Connector to allow you to connect to anything that isn't listed. 

Does this help?