Jira Platform Administration: The Complete Enterprise Guide to Configuration, Automation, and Governance (Jira & Atlassian Professional Series)

Master Jira Administration from the ground up with a practical, enterprise-focused approach.

Whether you're a Jira Administrator, System Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or ITSM professional, this comprehensive guide provides the knowledge and best practices required to design, configure, secure, automate, and govern Jira at enterprise scale.

Unlike books that only explain where settings are located, this guide explains why Jira works the way it does, helping you build scalable, maintainable, and well-governed environments.

Inside this book, you'll learn how to:

• Understand Jira Cloud and Jira Data Center architectures
• Design projects, workflows, schemes, and field configurations
• Manage users, groups, roles, permissions, and security
• Configure Jira Service Management and customer portals
• Build enterprise-grade automation and workflow rules
• Master JQL, dashboards, boards, queues, and reporting
• Integrate Jira with Confluence, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and REST APIs
• Administer ScriptRunner and Groovy automation
• Govern Marketplace apps and enterprise configurations
• Plan migrations between Jira Cloud and Data Center
• Improve platform performance, scalability, backup, and disaster recovery

The book progresses from Jira fundamentals to advanced administration topics, covering governance, automation, integrations, security, and operational best practices used in real enterprise environments.

Whether you are preparing for a Jira Administration role, managing an existing enterprise deployment, or looking to deepen your expertise, this guide serves as a practical reference that you can return to throughout your career.