Jenkins and Jira
Atlassian's Jira (http://www.atlassian.com) has quickly become an industry-wide powerhouse for tracking Agile efforts, managing development implementation queues, and providing project management solutions for software teams. In more recent releases of Jira and Jenkins have been bridged, and Jira now supports a tight coupling of Jenkins jobs and Jira tickets.
In this section of Mastering Jenkins we will discover how to implement Jenkins jobs with Jira projects in an effort to increase efficiency and support traceability throughout our pipelines and engineering landscape.
To begin we will need to have a few pre-requisites in place. Specifically we will need the following items:
- A Jira installation that is web-accessible by Jenkins
- Administrative access to Jira and Jenkins
- A Jenkins installation which is web-accessible by Jira
- Any number of projects in Jenkins, and Jira
To begin our integration efforts lets start by installing the Atlassian marketplace Jenkins plugin into Jira...