I'm doing some exploratory integration work between my system and Jira and want to run a local Jira instance from a Docker image. What setup should I use, which license is required, and do I need an Atlassian Cloud subscription to run it locally?
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Use the Jira Data Center Docker image for a local evaluation environment. You don’t need a Jira Cloud subscription, but the local instance will require a Data Center license during setup. For testing, you can request a free time-limited Data Center evaluation license from Atlassian and enter it in the setup wizard.
Give Docker plenty of memory—around 8 GB is a reasonable starting point. Jira can otherwise appear to start and then repeatedly terminate because the container runs out of RAM.
That clears up the Cloud-versus-local distinction. I’ll try the Data Center evaluation license.