If you have a controlled IT environment where changes need to go through development, testing/staging, and production processes, then, without a doubt, you will know how painful it is to promote Jira configuration changes across different environments. Since Jira does not provide a way to export configurations out of the box, all changes will need to be manually applied to each environment, which is both time-consuming and error-prone.

In this recipe, we will look at using a specialized tool that can help to make this process easier.