Deploying a JIRA plugin

In this recipe, we will see how to deploy a plugin into JIRA. We will see both the automated deployment using the Atlassian Plugin SDK and manual deployment.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the development environment set up as we discussed earlier. Also, the skeleton plugin should now have the plugin logic implemented in it.

How to do it...

Installing a JIRA plugin using the Atlassian Plugin SDK is a cakewalk. Here is how it is done:

  1. Open a command window and go to your plugin's root folder, that is, the folder where your pom.xml resides.
  2. Type atlas-run and press Enter. It is possible to pass more options as arguments to this command for which the details can be found at https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/developer-tools/working-with-the-sdk/command-reference/atlas-run ...

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