Standing up a Jira Data Center and Confluence

[Sharon Curtis]

We are in the planning staging to setting a new Jira Data and Confluence servers.  We would like to know if Jira and Confluence Data Center can reside on the same servers? 

Can someone point me to a setup/configurations  document with supported databases.

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @Sharon Curtis 

It's not recommended to run on the same server.  

Installing Jira Data Center | Administering Jira applications Data Center 10.7 | Atlassian Documentation

Installing Confluence Data Center | Confluence Data Center 9.5 | Atlassian Documentation

[Stefan Stadler]

Hi @Sharon Curtis 

technically, they can reside on the same physical servers, however, there might be difficulties when it comes to load handling in larger environments and you loose most kind of load balancing functions.

However, from a technical perspective, it is certainly possible. 

I could imagine a setup using Docker containers. Here is an instructions for Jira:

atlassian/jira-software - Docker Image | Docker Hub

And here is an instruction for Confluence:

atlassian/confluence-server - Docker Image | Docker Hub

You would still need a database server to be available. See the following links for supported DB servers. If both should run on the same DB server, you will have to use a version that is supported on both:

Supported platforms | Administering Jira applications Data Center 10.7 | Atlassian Documentation

Supported Platforms | Confluence Data Center 9.5 | Atlassian Documentation

Hope this helps!

Stefan