Using starter licenses for training bootcamps

[Anuerin Diaz]

Hi,

  I am currently evaluating if the starter licenses would be usable in a training environment setup, and eventually an isolated dev environment. The environment setup has two kinds: (1) virtualized training servers , and (2) personal containers.  In relation to this:

  - how easy is it to move the licenses from one server to another?

 - does the 10 licenses mean 10 unique users or 10 parallel users? The trainees per batch is expected to change.

  - if we are going to require to setup an isolated dev environment for extending the atlassian product integration (jira/agile/confluence/stash/etc.) which will be then spun and destroyed at random, do we need to purchase starter licenses for each developer? These licenses are not going to be used by more than 2-5 automated users but we are looking at having vagrant or docker provide the dev environment.

  thanks.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

1.  It's a pain to move licences - you have to log in to your account and change the server id and regenerate a new licence.
2. 10 unique active users.  You really don't want to use shared accounts for this, it breaks things in interesting ways.  So you should add 10 users.  There's no harm in having user0, user1... user9 and allocating the accounts at the beginning of each lesson.  Or you could create accounts for all your users, disabling anyone who isn't in today's class to keep the active user count below 11
3. Have a look at your licence page under your "my atlassian" account.  Under the main licence you should find a link for "development licences".  You should generate one of these and use it for dev.  Your main licence is for production but you can use many dev licences as long as you're not using it for production.

(The one thing I'm unclear on here - I don't know if you could use your dev licence to provide training systems.  You can certainly use it for dev, test, upgrade runs and disaster recovery, but I'm hazy on training)

[Anuerin Diaz]

Thanks Nic. For #3, if I will be forming a 5-man team doing workflow/integration work on Atlassian tools, can I generate 5 developer license sets out of the applications (confluence+bamboo+crucible+stash) . The setup I am envisioning is that each developer works on a shared install (lets call this the production set) but they can bring up a virtual image containing the "dev" set where they can test their in-flight extensions without causing problems with the other developers. I dont want to shortchange Atlassian but the tooling projects I have in mind are small and wont be able to afford a full blown license for each team member. Worst case scenario is we have one starter set install and they all test there but that is also not going to prevent each team member from stepping on each others changes. Caveat: I dont have a starter license yet although I am planning to purchase them. The questions is related to a feasibility proposal that I am helping for a client that will require Atlassian configuration and extension skills. :)