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Upgrade JIRA with Ansible?

jmooo

It looks like you can do an unattended install of JIRA, but I don't see a method to do an unattended upgrade?

Specifically my Ansible role currently has to download the latest .bin installer...and quit. I then have to log manually into the server to run the upgrade, I would much prefer Ansible to complete the upgrade on its own without my human fallibility!

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Thomas Deiler_db00h3

Dear @jmooo,

I totally understand your needs. I was same once in the situation to make upgrades more comfortable. So I did this with several RPMs.

It work somehow little bit better, but not unattended. In the end I stopped it.

My recommendation is not to do this with Ansible or any other tool, if data integrity is very important for you (several hundred serious users). There are so many pitfalls, that can make your life harder than upgrading manually. To name some:

plugins, that need to be installed via UPM and not just copied inside the plugin directory
dependencies to Jira (other linked Apps) that are not notified
extra installation steps for specific versions
config files that change, where patches cannot be applied

So long

Thomas

jmooo

Ultimately it looks like this is a shortcoming of JIRA, and an example of the incongruities of how apps in the Atlassian suite are installed/updated/maintained. For example Bamboo, Confluence, Crowd and more can have their installations/updates automated, but not JIRA. It would be nice if all the apps in the suite were designed by be administered the same way.

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Thomas Deiler_db00h3

Dear @jmooo,

I totally understand your needs. I was same once in the situation to make upgrades more comfortable. So I did this with several RPMs.

It work somehow little bit better, but not unattended. In the end I stopped it.

plugins, that need to be installed via UPM and not just copied inside the plugin directory
dependencies to Jira (other linked Apps) that are not notified
extra installation steps for specific versions
config files that change, where patches cannot be applied

So long

Thomas

Thomas Deiler_db00h3

Dear @jmooo,

was my answer fine enough to be also "accepted"?

Many Thanks

Thomas

jmooo

Thomas Deiler_db00h3

Very true. Probably once Atlassian will pick up your suggestion and realize it. Who knows ...

jmooo

Yes thanks for this detailed answer Thomas, I'm glad someone has at least tried to work around Atlassian's limitations. Basically the headaches to upgrading manually (updating multiple config files in multiple places, for ex) pale in comparison to the headaches for trying to upgrade automatically.

Dithmar Reutlinger

Why should this not be possible for JIRA? I am running all updates via ansible. For example:

# Create response.varfile from for unattended installation
- name: Create response.varfile
file:
path: /{{ app_path }}/response.varfile
state: touch
mode: 0755
- name: Fill response.varfile
lineinfile:
path: /{{app_path}}/response.varfile
line: "{{ item.line }}"
state: present
create: yes
with_items:
- { line: 'backupJira$Boolean=true' }
- { line: 'app.install.service$Boolean=false' }
- { line: 'existingInstallationDir=/{{ app_path }}/{{ app }}' }
- { line: 'app.jiraHome=/data/{{ app }}' }
- { line: 'sys.confirmedUpdateInstallationString=true' }
- { line: 'sys.languageId=en' }
- { line: 'sys.installationDir=/{{ app_path }}/{{ app }}' }
- { line: 'executeLauncherAction$Boolean=true' }
- { line: 'httpPort$Long=8080' }
- { line: 'portChoice=custom' }

After that you can run the .bin file:

 - name: Run Upgrade 
command: /{{ app_path }}/atlassian-jira-software-{{jira_version}}-x64.bin -q -varfile /{{app_path}}/response.varfile

Worked fine for me.

Francis Isabel

Do you have a repo for this role I am curious to see the source code.

Charles Mervin

Hi @Dithmar Reutlinger , Your suggestion worked like a charm. Can you please let me know how you got the parameters for the response file? It will be helpful for me to do the same for Confluence and Bitbucket.

Thanks,

Charles

Dithmar Reutlinger

Hi @Charles Mervin ,

Here is an example for Confluence:

with_items:
- { line: 'executeLauncherAction$Boolean=true' }      
- { line: 'app.confluenceHome=/data/{{ app}}' }      
- { line: 'sys.confirmedUpdateInstallationString=true' }     
- { line: 'launch.application$Boolean=false' }      
- { line: 'existingInstallationDir=/app/{{ app }}' }      
- { line: 'sys.languageId=en' }      
- { line: 'sys.installationDir=/app/{{ app }}' }     
- { line: 'backupConfluence$Boolean=false' }

I am not running Bitbucket so I am not able to support here.

Regards, Dithmar

Yves Martin

Our team has started to automate Jira with Ansible when installer does not exist yet.

So our playbook operates a similar way for most Atlassian products:

- prepare database

- download zip package

- extract it at /opt/atlassian/ and creates a shortcut link as /opt/atlassian/jira

- create service account and configure systemd service

- prepare JIRA_HOME location at /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/

- apply configuration: dbconfig.xml, jira.properties, custom release notes templates, sso support...

- download and apply patches from Jira Field Security, for instance

Some manual steps remains for an effective installation but almost complete an upgrade process. What may be really useful from Ansible too:

- Apps management in UPM but this may help: https://github.com/tschaefer/upmctl at least to bootstrap and get JCLI available: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6398/jira-command-line-interface-cli?hosting=server&tab=overview

- Update license if renewed since last playbook execution

- Trigger full reindex if put off to upgrade faster

- Integrity checks execution

- Report health check status

If fact, I cannot compare this Ansible playbook usage with Atlassian installer as I have never used it.

Sid_kvhzt3

Are there any repos that I can take a look to start with ?

Sid_kvhzt3

I kinda finished it and we are live as well. I will publish it soon

pop75 pop75

Hi @Sid

Do you have a chance to publish it already ?

poli

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