Best approach to take to set up a separate soft play area?

[Louis Mehr]

Hi,

We want to safely trial some plugins and keep the risks to our live data to a minimum.

What is the best way to do this?

Ideally, we would like to copy specific projects to a separate instance of Jira where we can experiment without fear of doing any harm.

Thanks

/Louis

[Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Louis,

you can create a free developer instance of Atlassian Cloud 

Due to the limited users I suggest disabling access for new users.

Go to Product access and disable access for new users.
I suggest you only keep the default access group for each product. If you only have one admin, you might keep those groups but it might be a good idea to at least remove it from JSD as there’s only one agent license.

[Louis Mehr]

Thanks Johan, but that has only  7 days duration.  What about something permanent?  

[Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_]

Louis, normally you'd get a free permanent instance with 5 Jira / Confluence users and one 1 JSD agent.

https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/marketplace/getting-started/

Looks like it's using the regular Cloud trial sign up again. I've mentioned it at the Developer community.

I suggest trying again in a few days but that's really what you need for testing and validating Atlassian Cloud apps.

[Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_]

@Louis Mehr it will not say developer instance anymore.

Here's a quote from the dev community:

"Looks like it’s working as expected. I got all 4 products. They say free trial but will always say that… they don’t say developer instances. If you don’t go over 5 users for Jira, and Confluence and don’t go over 1 JSD user agent you won’t get billed."