Confluence Cloud Operating System and Libraries

[Charisma Riley]

Hi there! I've looked through almost all of the Atlassian information I can find about the cloud-based infrastructure, but I am looking for something I'm not finding, namely:

• The operating system my instance of Confluence is hosted on
• The programming languages, related libraries, installation locations, and versions that are also installed on that server
• And whether we can call on these libraries and languages when customizing Confluence--and if not, how we can import our own languages and packages into Confluence to use

Not sure this information exists anywhere, but as a new cloud user, I am unused to having access to these resources, so I would like to know what I have to work with when building this out. One of the reasons for my questions: my company also runs SharePoint, and I am pretty interested to know if both Confluence Cloud and SharePoint are on Windows servers. Compatibility and customization options become much more likely on Windows, obviously. So if anyone knows these answers, please share!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

One of the points of using a Cloud system is that you simply do not care about the back-end, as all of it it handled by the provider for you.

And, none of it matters to you, because you do not, and will not, have any access to any of it.

But, to answer the questions, it's Linux, Java (with jsp, velocity, soy and other supporting libraries), and a postgresql database behind it. 

Versions will vary, but you don't care about those either, because you can't call on any of it. 

For customisation, you have essentially three options -

• Things you can change as an administrator in the UI (system stuff is irrelevant because Confluence doesn't let you get to it)
• Adding Apps written by 3rd parties (system stuff is irrelevant because someone else is running it)
• Adding your own Apps written by yourself (system stuff is irrelevant because you can run it on whatever platform you want and only talk to Confluence over its remote API)

[Charisma Riley]

Nic, this is *exactly* the kind of answer I was looking for! The cloud-based world is coming into focus for me a little bit at a time. Thank you so much for your response!

[Charisma Riley]

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