Document Jira Development Panel inbound/outbound connections
We should explain if inbound and outbound are required for the different Jira integrations. This issue resulted from a discussion on Slack (internal, good for 90 days)
Question
Do we know if the Jira Development Panel Integration requires outbound connections from GitLab to Jira? Or is it all inbound from Jira? I went through the docs and it looks like this should be just inbound from Jira but wanted to make sure.
Answer
there are two different ways to set up the development panel integration:
- Via GitLab.com for Jira Cloud app. This requires inbound connections for the setup and then pushes data to Jira via outbound connections
- Via DVCS. This will work with only inbound connections. The data will be synced every hour. DVCS tries to set up webhooks in GitLab to implement real time data sync but this won’t work without outbound connections.