Exchange Shared Secret between Confluence Server and the Atlassian Connect Add-on

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Dear Community,

we have an Atlassian Connect Add-on and would like to establish connectivity to it from the Confluence Server deployments. We would like to use JWT authorization between Confluence Server and our Add-on (the same JWT which is used for Confluence Cloud - Add-on authorization).

Is there any existing functionality which we can use to implement/simulate Add-on installation process between Confluence server and Add-on so that SharedSecret is exchanged between them?

Thanks.

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Unfortunately, there isn’t existing functionality from Atlassian that will do this. You’d need to build out a Plugins 2 app for Server separately from your Atlassian Connect app.

Many vendors build their P2 app so that it’s just a proxy to the Cloud app and try to reuse as much of their code as possible.

Here is some content that might be helpful in thinking about this:

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Hello @rwhitbeck,

thanks for your comment. Yes, it will be needed to implement Plugin 2 app which will proxy the requests to the Connect Add-on. Just was wondering whether there is any existing functionality we can take advantage of when implementing the ‘shared secret exchange’ handshake I’ve mentioned above.

Thanks.

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Hi Nikolai. We’re facing the same issue. Did you manage to find any way to automatically setup the JWT authentication from the p2 plugin, so you can make a request to the connect app? Thanks, Tom