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GitLab Jira integration

GitLab can be configured to interact with Jira. Configuration happens via username and password. Connecting to a Jira server via CAS is not possible.

Each project can be configured to connect to a different Jira instance, see the configuration section. If you have one Jira instance you can pre-fill the settings page with a default template. To configure the template see the Services Templates document.

Once the project is connected to Jira, you can reference and close the issues in Jira directly from GitLab.

Table of Contents

Referencing Jira Issues

When GitLab project has Jira issue tracker configured and enabled, mentioning Jira issue in GitLab will automatically add a comment in Jira issue with the link back to GitLab. This means that in comments in merge requests and commits referencing an issue, eg. PROJECT-7, will add a comment in Jira issue in the format:

 USER mentioned this issue in LINK_TO_THE_MENTION
  • USER A user that mentioned the issue. This is the link to the user profile in GitLab.
  • LINK_TO_THE_MENTION Link to the origin of mention with a name of the entity where Jira issue was mentioned. Can be commit or merge request.

example of mentioning or closing the Jira issue

Closing Jira Issues

Jira issues can be closed directly from GitLab by using trigger words, eg. Resolves PROJECT-1, Closes PROJECT-1 or Fixes PROJECT-1, in commits and merge requests. When a commit which contains the trigger word in the commit message is pushed, GitLab will add a comment in the mentioned Jira issue.

For example, for project named PROJECT in Jira, we implemented a new feature and created a merge request in GitLab.

This feature was requested in Jira issue PROJECT-7. Merge request in GitLab contains the improvement and in merge request description we say that this merge request Closes PROJECT-7 issue.

Once this merge request is merged, the Jira issue will be automatically closed with a link to the commit that resolved the issue.

A Git commit that causes the Jira issue to be closed

The GitLab integration user leaves a comment on Jira

Configuration

Configuring JIRA

We need to create a user in JIRA which will have access to all projects that need to integrate with GitLab. Login to your JIRA instance as admin and under Administration go to User Management and create a new user.

As an example, we'll create a user named gitlab and add it to jira-developers group.

It is important that the user gitlab has write-access to projects in JIRA

Configuring GitLab

JIRA configuration in GitLab is done via a project's Services.

GitLab 7.8 and up with JIRA v6.x

See next section.

GitLab 7.8 and up

The currently supported JIRA versions are v6.x and v7.x.

To enable JIRA integration in a project, navigate to the project's Settings > Services > JIRA.

Fill in the required details on the page as described in the table below.

Field Description
description A name for the issue tracker (to differentiate between instances, for instance).
project url The URL to the JIRA project which is being linked to this GitLab project.
issues url The URL to the JIRA project issues overview for the project that is linked to this GitLab project.
new issue url This is the URL to create a new issue in JIRA for the project linked to this GitLab project.
api url The base URL of the JIRA API. It may be omitted, in which case GitLab will automatically use API version 2 based on the project url, i.e. https://jira.example.com/rest/api/2.
username The username of the user created in configuring JIRA step.
password The password of the user created in configuring JIRA step.
Jira issue transition This is the ID of a transition that moves issues to a closed state. You can find this number under JIRA workflow administration (see screenshot). By default, this ID is 2 (in the example image, this is 2 as well)

After saving the configuration, your GitLab project will be able to interact with the linked JIRA project.

Jira service page

GitLab 6.x-7.7 with JIRA v6.x

Note: GitLab versions 7.8 and up contain various integration improvements. We strongly recommend upgrading.

In gitlab.yml enable the JIRA issue tracker section by uncommenting these lines. This will make sure that all issues within GitLab are pointing to the JIRA issue tracker.

After you set this, you will be able to close issues in JIRA by a commit in GitLab.

Go to your project's Settings page and fill in the project name for the JIRA project:

Set the JIRA project name in GitLab to 'NEW'

You can also enable the JIRA service that will allow you to interact with JIRA issues. Go to the Settings > Services > JIRA and:

  1. Tick the active check box to enable the service
  2. Supply the URL to JIRA server, for example http://jira.example.com
  3. Supply the username of a user we created under Configuring JIRA section, for example gitlab
  4. Supply the password of the user
  5. Optional: supply the JIRA API version, default is version 2
  6. Optional: supply the JIRA issue transition ID (issue transition to closed). This is dependent on JIRA settings, default is 2
  7. Hit save

Jira services page