Jira Plugin for Backstage

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Features

• Show project details and tasks
• View JIRA issues of the Project
• Activity Stream

How to add Jira project dependency to Backstage app

1. If you have standalone app (i.e., you didn't clone this repo), then do

cd packages/app
yarn add @kozmoai/backstage-plugin-jira

2. 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: 'no-check'
      # This is a workaround since Jira APIs reject browser origin requests. Any dummy string without whitespace works.
      User-Agent: "AnyRandomString"

jira:
  # Defaults to /jira/api and can be omitted if proxy is configured for that url
  proxyPath: /jira/api
  # Add it in case your JIRA instance is connected to Confluence, in order to filter those activities
  confluenceActivityFilter: wiki@uuid
  # Defaults to latest and can be omitted if you want to use the latest version of the api
  apiVersion: latest

3. 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 @kozmoai/backstage-plugin-jira
      - 'JIRA_URL'

4. Add plugin component to your Backstage instance:

// packages/app/src/components/catalog/EntityPage.tsx
import {
  EntityJiraOverviewCard,
  isJiraAvailable,
} from '@kozmoai/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>
);

How to get the Confluence Activity Filter key

To filter the Confluence activities your instance needs to have the filter to select one or more types of activity from Confluence. You can check that out by executing the following command in your bash:

curl -s -H "Authorization: <TOKEN>" <JIRA_URL>/rest/activity-stream/1.0/config | jq .

Then, check for a Confluence filter and copy the key value into the tag jira.confluenceActivityFilter in your Backstage's app-config.yaml.

How to use Jira plugin in Backstage

1. 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 value to fetch data for all components
    jira/label: <example-label> # optional, you might skip value to fetch data for all labels
    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).

2. Get and provide JIRA_TOKEN as env variable:

   1. Obtain your personal token from Jira: https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens

   2. Create a base64-encoded string by converting "your-atlassian-account-mail:your-jira-token",

      // node
      new Buffer('[email protected]:hTBgqVcrcxRYpT5TCzTA9C0F').toString(
        'base64',
      );
      
      // in your browser console
      btoa('[email protected]:hTBgqVcrcxRYpT5TCzTA9C0F');
      
      // bash
      echo -n '[email protected]:hTBgqVcrcxRYpT5TCzTA9C0F' | base64

      for example [email protected]:hTBgqVcrcxRYpT5TCzTA9C0F converts to amlyYS1tYWlsQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tOmhUQmdxVmNyY3hSWXBUNVRDelRBOUMwRg==

   3. Save the environmental variable JIRA_TOKEN with Basic prefix, eg: JIRA_TOKEN='Basic amlyYS1tYWlsQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tOmhUQmdxVmNyY3hSWXBUNVRDelRBOUMwRg=='

Links

• Backstage
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