The User & Group Sync app syncs user and group information from Keycloak to Jira, Confluence, and
Bitbucket. Syncing
user group attributes will sync user details such as groups, users, and directories. Sync can be performed manually
or scheduled to run after set time intervals. By doing so, the administrator only has to manage user accounts in
Keycloak. As a result, Atlassian modules such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket require less admin time to create
users and groups.
Download And Installation
- Log into your atlassian instance as admin.
- Navigate to the settings menu and Click Manage Apps.
- Click on Find new apps .
- Locate miniOrange User and Group Sync app.
- Click Try free to begin a new trial or Buy now to purchase a license.
- Enter your information and click Generate license when redirected to MyAtlassian.
- Click Apply license.
Step 1: Setup Keycloak
- First of all, login to your Keycloak dashboard.
- Click on Clients from the left sidebar and Create new clients.
- Enter a name as the Client id and select Client Protocol as open id
connect.
- Now, you will see the Settings page of the created client.
- Here, select Access Type as confidential . Make sure the options Standard Flow
Enabled, Direct Access Grants
Enabled, Service Accounts Enabled and Authorization Enabled options are turned
on.
- Also, against Valid redirect URIs put your Jira base URL. And then click
on SAVE.
- After saving, go to the Credentials tab on top. Save the client secret from here.
- Now go to Roles from the top menu and select uma_protection.
- Under uma_protection, turn on Composite Roles and transfer all the Realm
roles from Available Roles to
Associated Roles.
- Go to the Service account roles -> select "realm-management" and add the below highlighted scopes.
Step 2:
Setup User Sync & Group Sync app
- Open User Provisioning/Sync for Jira plugin configuration. Go to the Configuration tab.
Select Keycloak from
the options.
- Enter custom App name, Client ID, Client secret, Keycloak base url and realm
name. You will get Client ID and secret details in the Keycloak credentials
tab. Also enter App name, base URL and realm name accordingly from Keycloak. You can schedule the
synchronization process by using Set Scheduler Time Interval. Click on Save Settings.
Step 3: User Sync Settings
- Select the User Sync Settings tab from the left sidebar. Here you can configure different
settings about
user creation and updation.
- You can select the directory or can create a new one. Furthermore, you can choose from the following operations for provisioning users.
- You also have an option to set Default Project Lead and Default Component
Lead.
Step 4: Group Sync
Settings
- Select the Group Sync Settings tab from the left sidebar. Here you can configure different
settings about
group creation and group mapping.
- Here you can configure Default groups for new and all users.
- You can set Manual Group Mapping or On-The Fly Group Mapping.
1. Manual Group Mapping -
- Here you can manually map Jira groups with the groups from IDP.
- You can also configure to import IDP groups, filter groups and whether to keep existing users or not.
2. On-The Fly Group Mapping -
- Here users will be assigned to groups in Jira whose group name is the same as groups from IDP. If the
group doesn't exist in Jira then it will be created.
- You can configure to keep the existing user groups, filter groups and apply regular expressions on the
groups.
Step
5: Synchronization Process
- To perform user sync, click on the Synchronize option of your newly created app.
- When the synchronization is complete, you will be able to view newly created and updated user information in
Jira's User Management section.
