Backstage Jira Plugin

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Installation steps

Install the plugin into Backstage.

yarn --cwd packages/app add @roadiehq/backstage-plugin-jira

Add proxy config

# app-config.yaml
proxy:
  '/jira/api':
    target: '<JIRA_URL>'
    headers:
      Authorization:
        $env: JIRA_TOKEN
      Accept: 'application/json'
      Content-Type: 'application/json'
      X-Atlassian-Token: 'nocheck'
      User-Agent: "MY-UA-STRING"

Set img-src in Content Security Policy

// app-config.yaml
backend:
  # ...
  csp:
    img-src: 
      # "'self'" and 'data' are from the backstage default but must be set since img-src is overriden
      - "'self'"
      - 'data:'
      # Allow your Jira instance for @roadiehq/backstage-plugin-jira
      - 'JIRA_URL'

Add plugin API to your Backstage instance

// packages/app/src/components/catalog/EntityPage.tsx
import { EntityJiraOverviewCard, isJiraAvailable } from '@roadiehq/backstage-plugin-jira';

const overviewContent = (
  <Grid container spacing={3} alignItems="stretch">
    <EntitySwitch>
      <EntitySwitch.Case if={isJiraAvailable}>
        <Grid item md={6}>
          <EntityJiraOverviewCard />
        </Grid>
      </EntitySwitch.Case>
    </EntitySwitch>
  </Grid>
);

Add annotation to the yaml config file of a component

metadata:
  annotations:
    jira/project-key: <example-jira-project-key>
    jira/component: <example-component> # optional, you might skip this value to fetch data for all components
    jira/token-type: Bearer # optional, used for Activity stream feed. If you are using Basic auth you can skip this.

Even though you can use Bearer token please keep in mind that Activity stream feed will only contain entries that are visible to anonymous users. In order to view restricted content you will need to authenticate via Basic authentication, as described in official documentation (https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/consuming-an-activity-streams-feed/#authentication).

Provide the JIRA_TOKEN environmental variable (instructions at the notes below)

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Things to know

Get and provide `JIRA_TOKEN` as env variable.

Obtain you personal token from jira - https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens

Create a base64-encoded string by converting a string in format

<your-atlassian-account-mail>:<your-jira-token>

for example:

jira-mail@example.com:hTBgqVcrcxRYpT5TCzTA9C0F

converts to base64

amlyYS1tYWlsQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tOmhUQmdxVmNyY3hSWXBUNVRDelRBOUMwRg==

Save it as the environmental variable JIRA_TOKEN with Basic prefix, for example:

JIRA_TOKEN='Basic amlyYS1tYWlsQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tOmhUQmdxVmNyY3hSWXBUNVRDelRBOUMwRg=='

Alternatively, if you are running backstage locally, you can provide the variable by the command

env JIRA_TOKEN='Basic amlyYS1tYWlsQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tOmhUQmdxVmNyY3hSWXBUNVRDelRBOUMwRg==' yarn dev

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