Question related to migrating Confluence to Production

[SUMMIT]

We are planning to move our confluence to production. Right now we have the following setup in place,

OS: Windows

DB: Mysql

We are looking for two option to move to production.

Option A:

OS: Linux

DB: Postress

Option A:

OS: Windows

DB: Postgress.

Please answer the follwoing,

1. Possibility of exporting and importing the data to OptionA. will there be any impact during migration of data.
2. Possibility of exporting and importing the data to OptionB. will there be any impact during migration of data.
3. Procedure to migrate the data from existing location to new server.
4. Deployment guide for Confluence on Linux.
5. Which linux flavour is preferred (We prefer CentOS or Ubuntu)
6. Procedure to migrate the license from existing server to new.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

1, 2, and 3 - yes, you do an export and import directly.  See https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html The XML process is operating system agnostic.  The "impact" is that you must stop using the old system before the export and then use the new one after import

4 https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/installing-confluence-on-linux-143556824.html

5 Atlassian test mainly on CentOS and RedHat.  It works fine on all sorts of Linux, Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, Debian, and and and.. (and BSD if you want).  You should use the one you are most happy to support, and lean a little bit more to a distro that's closer to RedHat (i.e. Centos in your case)

6  Paste the licence from your my.atlassian.com account into the new system when it becomes "production"