Migrating to Cloud

Due to Atlassian’s discontinuation of Server (and recent announcement around end-of-life for Data Center) and the rapid growth of their Cloud platform, we understand many customers will be looking to move from their Server or Data Center Confluence instances to a Cloud environment.

As part of this process, Marketplace apps (like ours) are an important part of the migration process jigsaw, and this page aims to provide you with the information needed in your planning process.

Are there any differences between the Server/Data Center and Cloud versions of Approvals for Confluence?

The two versions are almost identical with some subtle differences, but don’t worry, Approvals is still the easy-to-use, intuitive approval tool you know and love.

We have created this useful comparison between the different versions of Approvals for Confluence so you can easily understand these differences.

How do you migrate Approvals for Confluence from on-premise to the cloud?

Whilst there is currently no automated migration tooling in place to migrate your Approvals for Confluence data from Server or Data Center to the Cloud, getting started with Approvals for Confluence Cloud is easy:

1. Follow the steps in our getting started guide to install the app from the Atlassian Marketplace.

2. Then perform your first approval, either at the page level, or at the section level.

3. If you find yourself selecting the same approvers frequently, you can use the Default Page Approvals to automatically add approvers to the page.

4. You may want to keep the history of the approvals made on your DC instance. One way to achieve that is through using the REST API. This lets you export out the decision log and store it for audit reasons.

If you have any questions about the migration process, please reach out to our Customer Support Team.