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Azure DevOps Connector for Confluence

Transform Your Development Process with Azure DevOps and Confluence Integration.

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Integrate Confluence and Azure DevOps

Allow for context-driven collaboration. View and discuss code changes in project documentation.

Better tracking of issues and bugs

Streamline development workflows, allowing developers to view and discuss code changes within project requirements and documentation.

Better integration of code and document management

Integrate Azure DevOps and Confluence to unlock the power of collaboration and take your team's productivity to the next level. Create amazing dev docs with ease, whether you're using Azure DevOps SaaS or Self-hosted.

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Why

Azure DevOps Connector for Confluence

Embed live Azure DevOps content directly in Confluence pages. Work items, queries, build statuses, pipeline results, wiki pages, and source code all render inline and stay current. Paste a URL and it works.

Who It's For

Engineering teams using Azure DevOps for development and Confluence for documentation. Project managers creating status reports, technical writers maintaining release notes, and teams doing sprint retrospectives in Confluence who need current Azure DevOps data.

The Problem

Confluence specs reference work items that change daily. Release notes cite build results that are already outdated by the time the page is published. Teams maintain wiki content in both Azure DevOps AND Confluence - duplicating effort and creating drift.

How We Solve It

Embed live Azure DevOps content directly in Confluence pages. Work items, queries, build statuses, pipeline results, wiki pages, and source code all render inline and stay current. Paste a URL and it works.

Key Differentiators:

Outcomes Customers Report

  • Release notes always reference current build and deployment data
  • Status pages reflect reality, not last week's snapshot
  • Single source of truth - no duplicate wikis across platforms
  • Sprint reviews are faster when all dev context is embedded in Confluence
  • Use cases

    Technical Documentation Enriched with Work Item Context

    A development team uses Azure DevOps for sprint planning and Confluence for technical documentation. When writing architecture documents or design specs in Confluence, they need to reference specific Azure DevOps work items - user stories, bugs, and tasks - that drove the design decisions.

    The challenge: Writers paste plain URLs to Azure DevOps work items in Confluence pages. These links show only the URL text, forcing readers to click through to Azure DevOps to understand what the work item is about. Important context is lost, and the documentation reads poorly with raw URLs scattered throughout.

    How Azure DevOps Confluence Connector helps:

    The result: Technical documentation is richer and more useful because readers see Azure DevOps context inline. Sprint review pages in Confluence are always current, eliminating the need to manually update status tables before each review meeting.

    Cross-Platform Onboarding Documentation

    A team onboards new developers using Confluence as their knowledge base. The onboarding guide references Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines, and work items that new hires need to access. The guide includes setup instructions that point to specific repos and boards.

    The challenge: Onboarding documentation goes stale quickly. Repository names change, pipelines are reorganized, and the Azure DevOps project structure evolves. New hires follow outdated links and get confused when they land on moved or renamed resources.

    How Azure DevOps Confluence Connector helps:

    The result: Onboarding time decreases because new developers find accurate, up-to-date references to Azure DevOps resources. The team spends less time updating the onboarding guide because live links maintain themselves.

    Release Documentation with Linked Work Items

    A release manager creates release notes in Confluence after each deployment. The notes need to list all work items included in the release - features, bug fixes, and improvements - along with their descriptions and acceptance criteria.

    The challenge: The release manager manually copies work item titles and descriptions from Azure DevOps into Confluence. For a release with 30 work items, this takes over an hour and introduces copy-paste errors. If a work item description is updated after the release notes are written, the Confluence page becomes inaccurate.

    How Azure DevOps Confluence Connector helps:

    The result: Release note creation drops from over an hour to under 10 minutes. The release manager sets up the query once, and the Confluence page maintains itself for each future release.

    Security is a top priority

    Data Privacy

    We prioritize customer data privacy with GDPR-compliant data collection and processing.

    SOC 2 Type II Certified
    We ensure that our systems, processes, and controls meet specific trust service criteria.
    Secure Development
    We employ end to end vulnerability checks during our coding and development process.
    Infrastructure Access
    We use multi-factor authentication and restrict access based on team’s needs.
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    Product detailed use cases

    FAQ

    Azure DevOps for Confluence support Confluence Cloud and Confluence Data Center, and Azure DevOps Cloud and Azure DevOps On-Premise.

    You can install the app from the Atlassian Marketplace. Once installed, follow the configuration instructions to setup the application on the global, space or personal level (depends on the global settings).

    Confluence Cloud app supports Azure DevOps work items and work items queries and searches, wiki documents and wiki trees, pull requests, code files and release artifacts. Confluence Data Center application supports Azure DevOps work items, search work items, release pipeline build status, releases and work item query.

    There are 2 ways: simply paste the link URL of the Azure DevOps entity into your Confluence page or add an Azure DevOps macro to the page. Mostly, Confluence will automatically convert the link into an embedded view (macro) that shows key information about the Azure DevOps content, however, sometimes the macro insert approach must be used.

    The app automatically displays the most relevant information from the linked Azure DevOps content. You cannot manually customize the format of the embedded data beyond the app's default display using the macro parameters, set them when you edit the macro.

    Firstly, Move Work Forward is SOC 2 Type II Compliant. Secondly, this app is enrolled into Security Bug Bounty program on BugCrowd. Thirdly, we care about security a lot and follow the security best practices.

    Pricing for Azure DevOps for Confluence depends on the size of your Confluence instance. Detailed pricing information is available on the Atlassian Marketplace listing.

    You can renew the trial to extend your evaluation period up to 5 times. Afterwards, you will need to contact Atlassian and seek an approval from Atlassian Marketplace Partner.

    For more details check out this blog.

    Atlassian Marketplace Partners don’t have the tools to manage licenses, so you need to reach out to Atlassian Support.

    If you're having trouble embedding Azure DevOps content, ensure that the app is properly installed, and verify that your Azure DevOps  account is authenticated and has the necessary permissions/scopes. You can also consult the documentation for troubleshooting tips or contact customer support for assistance.

    The app provides customer support through a help desk. Additionally, extensive documentation and tutorials are available to assist with setup, configuration, and troubleshooting.

    To get started, install the app from the Atlassian Marketplace, authenticate your GitHub account, and begin embedding GitHub content by pasting URLs directly into your Confluence pages. For more detailed instructions, refer to the Getting Started Guide.

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