This repository contains examples for how to setup Jenkins and Apache2 to use Atlassian Jira for authentication. The plugins its uses is designed for using Atlassian Crowd. However, JIRA contains a minimal crowd server and it therefore happen to work.
The same examples can also be used with Atlassian Crowd. Crowd also supports single sign-on (SSO) which JIRA does not.
At one point Atlassian wrote a plugin for Apache 2.2 to communicate with crowd. Fortunately, they did it open source. Someone wrote a patch to make it compatible with Apache 2.4. Atlassian dropped support for the plugin before the pull-request was merged and after sitting on the shelf for some time, some other person decided to pick it up and now hosts a working version on github! Thank you community!!
This repository contains a DockerFile for constructing the build environment needed for building the plugin for Apache 2.4. As well as a DockerFile for testing the plugin bundled with Apache.
A GNU Make file defines the build system to git clone and build the plugin and run the apache container. It expects that the system has docker, git and some other packages installed.
make run \
APPLICATION_NAME=<your-app-name> \
APPLICATION_PASSWORD=<your-secret-password> \
JIRA_SERVER=<url-to-your-jira-server> \
JIRA_GROUP=<user-group-with-access>Before apache is allowed to connect with your JIRA instance, you need to configure JIRA.
APPLICATION_NAME and APPLICATION_PASSWORD as listed for make run above, is
the values you specified in your JIRA application configuration.
JIRA_SERVER is simply the URL to your server. If your server uses HTTPS with
a self-signed certificate, include the issuing CA cert in the Apache docker
container by placing it in the apache/certs directory before
building the deployment image.
JIRA_GROUP is the user-group that should have access.
To stop the container, run:
make stop
For a full list of make targets run make help.
Also thanks to nightprogrammer who's post pointed me in the right direction to begin with.
NOT IMPLEMENTED YET
https://confluence.atlassian.com/fisheye/connecting-to-jira-for-user-management-960155582.html https://github.com/fgimian/cwdapache https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15411208/authenticate-jenkins-users-against-jira https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Crowd+2+Plugin https://www.nightprogrammer.org/administration/authenticate-apache-against-jira/