We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
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Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#2After a U.S. federal contractor told us they loved Plane but couldn't use it due to ITAR requirements, we spent 6 months building a truly air-gapped version. No external connections, no license pings, no telemetry, everything runs in complete isolation.
The interesting part: our air-gapped deployment actually runs faster than our SaaS version. Turns out when you eliminate all network latency, things get snappy.
This post covers the technical challenges we solved (supply chain trust, 2GB bundle size, offline licensing) and why regulated industries need alternatives to cloud-only tools like Jira.
Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#3Big fan of Plane since it's open-core.
Doesn't seem to be a lot of options for self-hosted/open-core project management software. The existing ones looks pretty bad, and don't come anywhere close to Jira level functionality.
Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#4just a fyi for anyone looking for a neat little kanban board, gitea has kanban built-in into the projects feature.
(obviously lacks really fine-grain customization that would be found in other jira alternatives)
Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#5After a U.S. federal contractor told us they loved Plane but couldn't use it due to ITAR requirements, we spent 6 months building a truly air-gapped version. No external connections, no license pings, no telemetry, everything runs in complete isolation. The interesting part: our air-gapped deployment actually runs faster than our SaaS version. Turns out when you eliminate all network latency, things get snappy. This…
> cloud-only tools like Jira.
But Jira is not cloud-only?
Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#6Ehm, fairly sure you can use Jira in an air-gapped environment.
Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#7After a U.S. federal contractor told us they loved Plane but couldn't use it due to ITAR requirements, we spent 6 months building a truly air-gapped version. No external connections, no license pings, no telemetry, everything runs in complete isolation. The interesting part: our air-gapped deployment actually runs faster than our SaaS version. Turns out when you eliminate all network latency, things get snappy. This…
> Turns out when you eliminate all network latency, things get snappy.
Same experience with JIRA. I read all these negative comments here and elsewhere about how slow and clunky JIRA was, and I couldn't relate at all.
Then I realized all those who complained was using JIRA Cloud and we were using on-prem, and it all made sense.
We've since moved to JIRA Cloud ourselves, and I understand now.
We moved and none of the new places had any viable computer room, so literally had to put the rack in a closet And well, that ain't cutting it for physical access control these days. Thankfully we have very simple flows without any BS, so not too many 1-5 second clicks to get things done.
Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#8Ehm, fairly sure you can use Jira in an air-gapped environment.
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Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#9After a U.S. federal contractor told us they loved Plane but couldn't use it due to ITAR requirements, we spent 6 months building a truly air-gapped version. No external connections, no license pings, no telemetry, everything runs in complete isolation. The interesting part: our air-gapped deployment actually runs faster than our SaaS version. Turns out when you eliminate all network latency, things get snappy. This…
> cloud-only tools like Jira. But Jira is not cloud-only? https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center
They've removed it from their pricing page now, but when they announced the discontinuation of the regular on-prem server the minimum for datacenter was like 500 licensed users or something along those lines.
In any case it was clear it's not for small shops like us.
That said, air-gapped is a hefty requirement, so perhaps those customers are predominantly large?
Re: We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
#10Ehm, fairly sure you can use Jira in an air-gapped environment.
from Google: "Atlassian has sunsetted its Server product line, including Jira Server, meaning they are no longer supported and users need to migrate to Cloud or Data Center versions. Specifically, support for Atlassian Server products ended on February 15, 2024. This includes the end of new license sales, renewals, and security updates for Jira Server. "