Stable Docker image to run JIRA

JIRA is one of the best Agile issue tracking tools out there, but choosing the right Docker image to run it is tricky.

Docker Hub lists more than 1 000 JIRA Docker images. Fortunately only a few have considerable number of stars helping to narrow it down to two:

1. cptactionhank/atlassian-jira-software
2. blacklabelops/jira

When running JIRA behind HAProxy that terminates SSL, e.g. @LetsEncrypt, cptactionhank/atlassian-jira-software turned out to be painful. Since JIRA does a lot of AJAX, considerable number of XHR requests broke over SSL termination rendering this Atlassian JIRA Docker image unusable.

In comparison, blacklabelops/jira ran out of the box with the following Docker Compose configuration:

version: '2'
services:
  web:
    image: 'blacklabelops/jira:7.5.0'
    hostname: '<jira host>'
    restart: always
    ports:
      - '8080:8080'
    links:
      - db
    volumes:
      - ./jira:/var/atlassian/jira
    environment:
      JIRA_DATABASE_URL: 'mysql://<database user>@db/<database name>'
      JIRA_DB_PASSWORD: '<database password>'
      JIRA_PROXY_NAME: '<jira host>'
      JIRA_PROXY_PORT: '443'
      JIRA_PROXY_SCHEME: 'https'
      DOCKER_WAIT_HOST: 'db'
      DOCKER_WAIT_PORT: '3306'
    logging:
      driver: json-file
      options:
        max-size: 10m
  db:
    image: mariadb:10.1
    environment:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: '<database name>'
      MYSQL_USER: '<database user>'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: '<database password>'
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: '<database root password>'
    volumes:
      - ./data:/var/lib/mysql
    logging:
      driver: json-file
      options:
        max-size: 10m
    restart: always
    command: mysqld --character-set-server=utf8 --collation-server=utf8_bin