Confluence in cloud + Crowd

[bsoulier]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if it is possible to integrate Crowd from a local Active Directory to authenticate users in Confluence or JIRA?

Additional question: Will Crowd support Azure AD instead of on premise AD in the near future?

Many thanks, Ben

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No.  Cloud does not support any form of external authentication systems.  

Yet.  See https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ID-79 for the request.

[bsoulier]

Hello Nic,

Stated by this ticket, it says that using Crowd (with AD), users can connect with SSO to Confluence and/or JIRA.

The idea is not here to have direct AD integration with JIRA, but to use Crowd for that.

Cheers, Ben

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, Crowd does AD integration and SSO. But you've said you're using Cloud, where you can NOT.

[bsoulier]

Hello Nic thanks for your answer.

So if I summarize:

• Crowd does AD integration & SSO, but ONLY with Server Version,
• There is no way to use Crowd with Confluence & JIRA as Cloud versions.

Is this valid?

Many thanks, Ben 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not quite, although the end result is the same: - Crowd does AD integration and SSO, Cloud and Server - Crowd *is* behind the user maintenance on Cloud - The end users in Cloud do *not* have the ability to connect Crowd to any other system (It's a pedantic point - you already ARE using Crowd on Cloud, but you can NOT use your AD with it)

[Aliaksei Ilkiu]

Nick and other gurus,

Is it possible to define Crowd directory pointing to remote Crowd (cloud JIRA) and reuse cloud users for set of Atlassian products that I have to run locally? The main purpose to have a single identity to manage across both Atlassian offerings (cloud and server)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, Cloud doesn't expose the internal users like that.