Jira on Kubernetes

[Dimitrios Danampasis]

We are looking into moving our Jira instance on a Kubernetes cluster and one of the concerns that were recently risen is whether we should go with a StatefulSet or a Deployment. So, are there any suggestions or lessons learned by using any of the above controllers?

Any additional tips, source of information and comments by people who went through the process could be very valuable to us.

[MB · Accepted solution]

Jira is a stateful monolith. You should very much so use a v1/Statefulset. Check this out. 

https://github.com/Bonn93/atlassian-kubernetes/tree/master/jira

[SUNDO KIM]

Thank you

[王九日]

helm test failed

1、helm test chot-jira-dev -n jira --debug (without network)

debug.log

Any help would be appreciated. 3Q

[Yevhen]

@王九日 it doesn't look like Jira has started correctly. Test pod just runs curl to verify status and expects it to be FIRST_RUN or RUNNING. Sharing Jira pod logs may shed some light on what is happening. 

[Dan Koester]

Has anyone been able to get Jira to run in Kubernetes successfully using the Atlassian images? I can get it to kind of work but it takes 15+ minutes to start up and plugins fail to load. I have it running on a beefy K8S nodes but the pod never seem to want to use more then 100-200m cpu.

[MB]

This sounds like an issue with Jira & the plugins. Analyzing and exploring Jira's logs would be the next course of action. Using my repo above and deploying several apps, scaling up and down on slow hardware takes between 3-5 minutes on a E5-2650L.