Installing JIRA on raspbian

[Костя Малишич]

Hello.

Is it possible to install JIRA software on my own tiny server based on the Raspberry PI single board computer inside raspbian (Debian for ARM)?

[jurgen0815]

I wouldn't say it is impossible. Jira won't run on Raspbian because it runs a 32bit kernel. Everything below a Raspberry Pi4 doesn't have enough memory.

However, the Raspberry Pi 4 has 4GB and a 64bit OS: Manjaro linux (with Xfce or minimal, https://manjaro.org/). It supports OpenJDK 64bit JVM (up to 11) and it runs Jira server 8.3 just fine. It tops out the 4 cores for sure (but Jira does this with most server installs). Not sure if it can handle the workload of a team of 10, but it certainly works for small teams. I run this from a 128GB SD card, but there are nice USB3.0 large storage solutions available if you plan on storing large attachments. One advice: Don't run anything else on that board besides Jira. My main motivation was either create a virtual server because my Mac Mini i5 wasn't fast enough for running 4 apps (and only has 8GB) and I need this to be on 24/7. So, yes, totally doable.

BTW: I run the postgresql 9.6 server on a 2GB Asus Tinkerboard S (32GB emmc). My bitbucket server runs on a 4GB NanoPi M4 Hexacore with 256GB nvme drive.

[Peter Keech]

Despite this being an old post, I appreciate your input. I'm contemplating on installing it on a Raspberry Pi 4 also but wasn't sure if it could handle the load. 

[jurgen_schober]

If you have a choice, use a different SBC. There are cheaper and better boards out there than the RPi4. OdroidN comes with 6 cores (Ubuntu Mate runs very stable on that one), I have a bitbucket server running on a NanoPI m4 which comes with a great nvme module for the storage (256GB nvme). The RPi4 runs on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now and has a USB 512GB mSATA attached. All of those are 24/7 boards and mostly used for some internal ticketing only. I use a RPi3 as a reverse proxy and dynamic host, btw.

[Peter Keech]

Thanks for your response Jurgen!

I'm definitely going to take a look at some different SBC. I've only messed around with the RPi 3+ and 4 so far. Very interested to see what else is out there.

I had some free time and a spare RPi 4 laying around so I messed with that this afternoon. 

Cheers, 

Peter

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's usable on a Pi4, but I'm with Jurgen, have a look at some other boards.

https://dietpi.com/ is worth a look - originally it was for a minimal Debian install for a Pi, but it's expanded rapidly to a minimal Debian install for a shed-load of SBCs. 

But I mention it for a different reason.  Not the OS itself, but the landing page.

If you scroll down a bit, it lists over 30 SBCs (that Dietpi can be installed on) and gives us some relative getting-started performance data if you click on them, plus links to more info.

Well worth a look if you're considering low-power computers that "do one thing well".

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Install, yes.  Run it, yes.  Run it at a useful speed - well, generally no.  The PI has plenty of IO speed, a decent processor (assuming at least a Pi 2, although you can actually run it on a Pi 1), but the memory is going to fail you.

My caveat on that is that I tried no memory tuning beyond the basics of giving the OS and Java enough memory.  And I was not running Raspian, I was on DietPi, which is a very minimal install.

I would strongly recommend not bothering to try this.

[Костя Малишич]

My project contains 3 programmers and a couple of testers, There are only ~ 5 projects will be in repo, so I though it was OK to use small computer for server deployment of basic JIRA for 10 users.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It will struggle - even a Pi 3 does not have the resources to run a Jira install fast enough for anything other than single-user testing.

[Sid]

You can install it if it met the requirements - https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/supported-platforms-861253018.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/jira-applications-installation-requirements-861253014.html

I have never tried it, may be someone can answer if they have installed.