Posted by Before you install JIRA Data Center, review this prerequisite information at Atlassian document guide. In this blog I just want to show you the steps how to setup JIRA data center in AWS.
There are 4 main steps
- Setup efs in AWS which is used for shared-home
- Setup database server
- Setup Jira node in ec2
- Setup load-blancer
At first. You need to login AWS
Setup EFS
https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/efs/home?region=us-west-1#/filesystems
Notes : You need to note down security groups that you had chosen for this efs
Setup database server
Notes : You can use RDS but this blog I instance DB server in Jira node 1.
Go to e2c https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-1 . And the create one and waiting it is ready
- Connect E2C by ssh -i “jsoft.pem” ec2-user@ec2-54-219-137-163.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (jsoft.pem is the cert file when you were creating ec2)
- See this https://cankube.com/2019/06/18/postgres-ec2-amazon-linux-ami/
- Create Jira Database
sudo -i -u postgres
psql
create database jira;
Now you have database server for your Jira.
Setup Jira node 1
Mount EFS file server. Remember that we have already setup the EFS at step 1. So go back the efs section in AWS and click on “Amazon E2C mount ….”
sudo yum install -y amazon-efs-utils
mkdir /opt/efs
cd /opt
sudo mount -t efs fs-bb59dea2:/ efs
Install JDK
sudo su
curl --location --junk-session-cookies --insecure --output /tmp/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm \
--header 'Cookie: gpw_e24=http://www.oracle.com/; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie' \
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm && \
yum localinstall -y /tmp/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm && \
yum clean all && \
rm -f /tmp/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm
Download and setup Jira binary
cd /opt
export JIRA_HOME="/opt/efs/jira-node1-home"
export JIRA_RELEASE="7.10.0"
mkdir -p ${JIRA_HOME}
curl --location https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-software-${JIRA_RELEASE}.tar.gz -o /opt/efs/atlassian-jira-software-${JIRA_RELEASE}.tar.gz
tar -xvf /opt/efs/atlassian-jira-software-${JIRA_RELEASE}.tar.gz -C /opt
Update Jira home for node-1
sudo vi /opt/atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0-standalone/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties
jira.home = /opt/efs/jira-node1-home
Start node 1
/opt/atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0-standalone/bin/catalina.sh start
Access node 1 by using ec2 publish dns
e.g : ec2-54-219-137-163.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080
Enter DB server that we already setup above
Now you are getting the connection error because your DB server is not remote enable yet.
sudo vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
#append or update
listen_addresses='*' # be careful with this which means everyone can access your DB server.
sudo systemctl start postgresql
Remember , you need to setup Data center license for this Jira node. see more about it at https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/data-center
Setup Jira shared-home and enable clustering for node 1
#stop node 1
/opt/atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0-standalone/bin/catalina.sh stop
# create shared-home
mkdir /opt/efs/shared-home
# copy jira-node1-home to shared-home
cp -R /opt/efs/jira-node1-home/{data,plugins,logos,import,export,caches} /opt/efs/shared-home
cd /opt/efs/jira-node1-home
>cluster.properties
modify cluster.properties content as below
# This ID must be unique across the cluster
jira.node.id = node1
# The location of the shared home directory for all JIRA nodes
jira.shared.home = /opt/efs/shared-home
Start node 1
/opt/atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0-standalone/bin/catalina.sh start
Now your Jira is running with Datacenter but only 1 node. So let start node 2
Setup Jira node 2
#connect to node 2 ec2
ssh -i "jsoft.pem" ec2-user@ec2-54-183-204-121.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
sudo yum install -y amazon-efs-utils
mkdir /opt/efs
cd /opt
sudo mount -t efs fs-bb59dea2:/ efs
Install JDK
sudo su
curl --location --junk-session-cookies --insecure --output /tmp/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm \
--header 'Cookie: gpw_e24=http://www.oracle.com/; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie' \
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm && \
yum localinstall -y /tmp/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm && \
yum clean all && \
rm -f /tmp/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm
You will see the shared-home and jira binary in efs folder as below
[root@ip-172-31-10-38 efs]# ls -lt
total 281748
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 6144 Jun 20 00:46 shared-home
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 6144 Jun 20 00:44 jira-node1-home
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 288500174 Jun 19 02:27 atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0.tar.gz
Extract Jira binary to /opt
tar -xvf atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0.tar.gz -C /opt
Update Jira home for node 2 with value “/opt/efs/jira-node2-home”
mkdir -p /opt/efs/jira-node2-home
vi atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0-standalone/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties
cd /opt/efs/jira-node1-home
cp cluster.properties dbconfig.xml /opt/efs/jira-node2-home
Start node 2
atlassian-jira-software-7.10.0-standalone/bin/catalina.sh start
Now you access Jira node 2 via public dns. e.g : http://ec2-54-183-204-121.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080
So you have 2 Jira nodes. If you want more just repeat the step2 for Jira node 2
And the question is how the Jira users only one endpoint. By resolving that we use LoadBalancers in AWS
Setup LoadBalancers
Login AWS
Click on Edit button
Now you can use LoadBalancer URL instead of node url
e.g : http://jira-cluster-1917291435.us-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com:8080/secure/Dashboard.jspa
Now you can see 2 Jira nodes under : Systems –> System Info in Jira
