We are starting to work in setting up a JIRA and Confluence configuration as much high available as possible. We will use AWS to do so and will use the Data Center versions. The idea is to start with 500 users but scale up to around 2000 or more. We are wondering what good practices are people using to do so, for example: * For the shared storage, we wanted to be distributed and ha so NFS doesn't applies, what are you using? GlusterFS? Ceph? We are also thinking on s3 fuse but are afraid of the performance. * For the database we are going to use RDS, somebody have tried? * For the load-balancer we are going to use ELB * Somebody uses some sort of auto-scaling or its done by hand. Thanks!

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JIRA / Confluence Data Center (AWS) Best Practices

Albert Manya1

We are starting to work in setting up a JIRA and Confluence configuration as much high available as possible. We will use AWS to do so and will use the Data Center versions.

The idea is to start with 500 users but scale up to around 2000 or more.

We are wondering what good practices are people using to do so, for example:

For the shared storage, we wanted to be distributed and ha so NFS doesn't applies, what are you using? GlusterFS? Ceph? We are also thinking on s3 fuse but are afraid of the performance.
For the database we are going to use RDS, somebody have tried?
For the load-balancer we are going to use ELB
Somebody uses some sort of auto-scaling or its done by hand.

Thanks!

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Kevin_Terminella

Did you end up figuring out a solution? I'm trying to design JDC on AWS as well and keep getting hung up on the shared storage piece.

Ahmad Awadallah

I just came back from re:Invent. I learned about auto-scaling and also would like info in this area for JIRA and Confluence. I guess it also depends on what type of auto-scaling you want to use... spinning up more instances or containers. This is what I am trying to find info about. Either way does Atlassian support multiple instances hitting the same DB? And what about the DB... this looks like it may still be a bottleneck in performance since Atlassian does not support NoSQL DBs.

If you find info please let us know. If I find something useful I will come back here and post it.

Thanks.

Everett Daviage

We are looking for similar answers. Has anyone contacted Atlassian directly with this question?

Chris Moreira

Hey guys, did anyone find the solution for this? I'd appreciate if you could share that smile

Kevin_Terminella

We've been testing out GlusterFS and it seems to behave well both from a functional and performance perspective.

Chris Moreira

Hey Kevin, so have got JIRA datacenter working on the AWS? how about the Multicast problem, was that an issue?

Chris Moreira

Hi Albert, did you end up figuring this out? please share?

Kevin_Terminella

Wasn't a problem as you can choose to not use multicast for JDC.

Chris Moreira

thx that is great news... so how many nodes u running? about the GlusterFS performance, would you be able to share how many actives user you have roughly?

Corentin Méhat

Hello,

since this question Atlassian published the following pages about Datacenter deployment on AWS :

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/running-jira-software-data-center-in-aws-857064325.html

and

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/recommendations-for-running-jira-software-data-center-in-aws-857064327.html

I personnaly succesfully set up a JIRA DataCenter on AWS a bit before they published their guide with the following components :

DB : RDS Mysql
Servers : EC2 instances
Load balancers : ELB
Shared FS : nfs
hope it helps

jameers

Corentin MEHAT

Thanks, now links are not working. can you please explain it. can we install nfs in the same instance or we need separate nfs server?

DB : RDS PostgreSQL
Servers : EC2 instances
Load balancers : ELB

NFS:?

Corentin Méhat

Now that it is globally available I would recommend using EFS for the shared folder rather than supporting your own NFS installation.

Tran Dien Hien_qmwjpc

Hi All,

I have been deploying Confluence Data center on AWS bas below:

-EC2 Node auto scaling

- ABL : Application load balancer

- EFS: Share home

- DB : Selfhost

But I'm facing a problem with the cluster, when when the auto scaling increase more node the cluster don't work because because new node have the same cluster id with the current node. How can I solve this problem? Have any solution to change the cluster node automatically.

I much appreciate for your help

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