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Which Jira credentials are used for which actions in Pipelines?

Expected Behavior for Individual versus Team-Shared Jira Credentials in Automated Pipeline Use

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Written by Sam Wilson
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When using a team-shared automated pipeline, you have the option to use team-shared Jira credentials.

However, we don't always use the team-shared credentials to update Jira for actions completed in the pipeline. This article explains what to expect.

Individual Jira credentials:

  • When a person merges a pull request inside of a Gearset pipeline, their individual Jira connection will be used to post the comment to any linked Jira tickets.

  • If an action in the pipeline is user initiated, this will use their personal Jira credentials.

  • If an action is automated in the pipeline (such as updating a Jira ticket's status as a user story progresses between pipeline environments), the user's personal Jira connection credentials will be used.

Team-shared Jira credentials:

  • If a user merges a pull request but does not have their own personal Jira connection, the team-shared connection is used to post the comment to any linked Jira tickets.

  • If a user merges a pull request outside of the pipeline, the pipeline owner's Jira connection is used. For a team-shared pipeline, this is the team-shared Jira connection.

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