Restore JIRA from native instance to docker container
You can definitely restore JIRA native into a docker container using docker.
Steps:
- Backup existing JIRA
- Launch a JIRA dockerized
- Restore new JIRA
- Backup existing JIRA
- Navigate to https://YOUR_SERVER.atlassian.net/secure/admin/CloudExport.jspa
- Choose Backup for cloud
- You will get a zip, unzip it under the folder
backup.
- Launch a JIRA dockerized
Use a community image as official image don't exist yet
docker run --name jira --detach --publish 8080:8080 cptactionhank/atlassian-jira-software:latest- Install using the options you want
- Restore new JIRA
Copy the entities.xml to be ready to restore it:
cd backup# copy inside of the dockerdocker cp entities.xml jira:/var/atlassian/jira/import/Navigate to http://localhost:8080/secure/admin/XmlRestore!default.jspa
- Type entities.xml in the File Namefield
- Press Restore
- It might take time if it's big
Done!
Improvement
Use a volume if you want to keep your data persistent:
docker run -v jira_data:/var/atlassian ...