Confluence - A Complex & Timely Move Made Easy
Recently, Go2Group was asked to provide some assistance with Confluence, Atlassian's enterprise wiki product. We use Confluence internally for collaboration across different teams in different locations, as well as for our support site to provide product information to our customers.
Needless to say, we are experienced Confluence users and administrators, which makes a client's support request that much more imperative - we're not sure what we'd do if the wiki was down!
This particular client was preparing for a big moving day - from a new server, a new database server, a new version of their databse, and a new version of Confluence. All at the same time. This engagement certainly had the opportunity for many points of failure, but it turned out to be one of our smoothless deployments.
In preparing for this engagement and while providing the required services, we leared a few things:
We would certainly agree that these options are nice, and sometimes required. At the same time, we'd like to preach the gospel according to prudence: Everything in moderation.
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Go2Group, Inc.
http://www.go2group.com/
Needless to say, we are experienced Confluence users and administrators, which makes a client's support request that much more imperative - we're not sure what we'd do if the wiki was down!
This particular client was preparing for a big moving day - from a new server, a new database server, a new version of their databse, and a new version of Confluence. All at the same time. This engagement certainly had the opportunity for many points of failure, but it turned out to be one of our smoothless deployments.
In preparing for this engagement and while providing the required services, we leared a few things:
- When upgrading to a new version of Confluence, take inventory of the currently installed plugins. Some plugins can be updated directly from Confluence's plugin repository, but many will have to be updated manually by uploading the new JAR files.
- Confluence is a very stable product, and one that is very tolerant when moving to a new plaform and/or database.
- The smoothness of this transition was partially due to the way Confluence was configured in this environment - the client was very careful not to install plugins just because they could. This client was very particular about which plugins were to be installed based on their need and frequency of use.
We would certainly agree that these options are nice, and sometimes required. At the same time, we'd like to preach the gospel according to prudence: Everything in moderation.
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Go2Group, Inc.
http://www.go2group.com/
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