A team is developing a new web application which will be deployed in AWS EC2. Within the company, Atlassian JIRA Software is commonly used to manage many existing projects. For this new project, the team lead expected to manage using a unified project management dashboard where there is information such as JIRA stories/issues, continuous deployment status, application endpoints, etc. What is the best way to achieve this requirement?

Answer options:

A.Use CloudFormation stack to create CloudWatch dashboards to manage the project including the JIRA URL.
B.Use AWS CodePipeline to manage the source, build and deployment. Add a stage with the action provider as Jenkins. In the Jenkins server, configure a JIRA plugin to integrate with Atlassian JIRA.C.Create an AWS CodeStar project. Configure the connection to JIRA in the CodeStar project. Customize the project dashboard as required.
D.Create an AWS CodeStar project. Customize the project dashboard as required with a link to the JIRA server URL.

Correct Answer – C
AWS CodeStar has provided the integration with Atlassian JIRA according to
https://aws.amazon.com/codestar/
and the issue tracking and project management features provided by JIRA can be easily integrated in the CodeStar dashboard.
Option A is incorrect: Because CloudWatch dashboards cannot provide a project management feature.
Option B is incorrect: Because it has to use Jenkins to manage the integration with JIRA. It is not as good as CodeStar.
Option C is CORRECT: After JIRA is integrated, CodeStar users can easily see all the Jira tickets related to the project. JIRA information can be found in the dashboard:
Option D is incorrect: The CodeStar dashboard directly connects with JIRA after being configured. The description in Option D is not accurate.