Github Integration with Jira

Overall Process

Prerequisites

1. Create a public Github repo and include .github/workflows/issue_creation.yml in it
2. Navigate to Settings -> Developer Settings -> Personal access tokens
3. Generate a fine-grained token scoped to your Repo with Read and Write access to actions, code, environments, issues, and workflows.
4. Copy your token.
5. Go to your Azure Key Vault, and create a secret called TOKEN and paste your token from step 4.
6. Create an Azure function and paste the code in azure_functions/github_jira_issues.cs to your Azure function.
7. In the string uri variable in the code, replace {GITHUB_USERNAME} and {REPO_NAME}.
8. Copy the URL of your Azure function app
9. Create a free Jira account
10. Create a new Jira Software project and navigate to your project
11. In the top right, click on the cogwheel then click on System
12. In the left panel, scroll down and click on Webhooks
13. Create a webhook where the created event for Issue is ticked
14. Paste your Azure Function apps URL you copied in step 8 into the URL field of your webhook.

Testing

1. Create a Jira Issue
2. View the Actions tab in your Github repo, and you should see that an action is being executed
3. After the issue creation action is finished, a new Github Issue will appear.