Federating two instances of Confluence

Question

I know that there are posts about this topic however the only ones I'm finding are from 2014 and 2015 so I wanted to get a 2018 answer from someone: Is there any way to natively federate two separate instances of Confluence? My company wants an internal instance and an external instance to serve as our public-facing KB, but my CTO is concerned about duplicating documents and having to keep them updated, etc.

I've seen some discussion about combining searches across multiple instances of Confluence using a Sharepoint plugin, but in general I think we want to stay away from third-party solutions (not to mention Sharepoint).

Thank you in advance for any insight.

Igor M_ · Answer

Hello,

There is no native way to have two standalone Confluence server instances connected this way, best you can do to avoid duplication, is enable anonymous access and create a separate Space that is open to anonymous external users while keeping the rest of the spaces properly restricted. Then use page include macros to pull any KB created in Internal spaces you with for external users to view, to the External space. This way every time change is made to the source, external space KB will always be up to date.

Regards,

Igor

Timothy · Answer

While I don't have the answer to the federation of multiple Confluence, you can achieve the same concept by using the plugins from k15t:

* https://help.k15t.com/scroll-viewport/latest/switching-between-spaces-published-by-scroll-versions-140550282.html

Marketplace:

* https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/7016/k15t-software-gmbh

Better to manage versions of the space than to manage to Confluence instance.