How can I develop with a local version of Confluence Data Center?

[Al Manning]

I'm looking to develop a plugin and integrations for Confluence Data Center.  I've already done this for Confluence Cloud and now I want to port this work to Data Center customers.

How do I get my development environment setup to do this?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Al Manning 

You can download and install a DV confluence version on your computer and work with that. This comes with a trial license, but you can extend it afterwards. Go here and download confluence https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives

[Al Manning]

Many thanks for the info, I have a couple of follow-on questions.  I can create new questions if that would work better.

Is this Docker container another advised option rather than a local installation?
https://hub.docker.com/r/atlassian/confluence-server

Is Editor v2 in Confluence Data Center?  If so, what version was it added?

Asked here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-version-of-Confluence-Data-Center-has-editor-V2/qaq-p/2351223

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

To develop a Server/DC plugin, you need more tooling than just a Confluence Data Center instance. You will need the whole Atlassian Plugin SDK.

Start here: https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/set-up-the-atlassian-plugin-sdk-and-build-a-project/