New Toolchain for Embedded Development

Project Challenge

Within four months:

• Set up a first official release for Jira and Confluence (with MS SQL) within a new toolchain.
• Create a user and role concept for the new toolchain and implement it for Jira and Confluence.
• Install this new toolchain behind a proxy (IIS) to give external partners secure access to the tools.
• Install and configure Crowd with Jira and Confluence to implement user and group management and Single Sign-on.
• Develop and deliver trainings.

• Optimise the existing Jenkins environment.

Solution Provided

• Set up a project plan and imported it into Jira.
• Atlassian Jira and Confluence installed and configured on a Windows server test environment with connection to a MS SQL database.
• Configured Jira and Confluence to run behind the companies IIS proxy to provide secure public internet access for the tools.
• Installed and configured Crowd for a central user and group management.
• Set up Crowd, Jira and Confluence for single sign-on.
• Developed a user and role concept and implemented this in Crowd, Jira and Confluence.
• Developed a way to have Confluence space templates and created a standard space template.
• Set-up of test scenarios and coordinated testing of Jira and Confluence and configuration on the test environment.
• Migrated the test environment into a new production environment with the latest Jira and Confluence production data within six hours.
• Set up a Sonatype demo and installed and tested a Nexus server.
• Jenkins analysis, optimisation proposal and plan with cost estimations.
• Full documentation of requirements, analysis, installation, configuration and architecture in a Confluence space.

Proposed target architecture for the future: tool architecture with external access.

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