The contents of this guide are intended for customers who have decided to migrate Comala Publishing to cloud.
Comala Publishing v3.1.0 or later must be installed prior to migration in your server instance.
If you haven't made a decision about your migration, read this article for more information.
Confluence Cloud
The benefit of a cloud environment is that your cloud app will always have the most up-to-date features available. It's also less demand on your own IT infrastructure support needs.
More information on benefits of using the Atlassian Cloud platform can be found on Atlassian's Why Cloud?
As we progress through the cloud journey, we will continue to work toward feature parity between our server/data centre apps and our cloud apps. In the meantime, not all features available on our server apps are available for cloud.
Review our Product Comparison for Comala Publishing cloud and server app. There is also a features roadmap for the development of features for Comala Document Management Cloud app.
The migration journey
Get familiar with Comala Publishing for Cloud
As there are differences between our Server / DC and Cloud products, we recommend that you create a test Cloud instance and install a free trial of Comala Publishing to understand the capabilities...
Comala Publishing for Cloud includes
integration with our Comala Document Management for Cloud app
integration with our Comala Read Confirmations for Cloud app
The Comala Publishing Data Center/Server has several configuration options to manage the publication of content (such as copy labels or Not copy labels; Copy blog-posts or Not copy blog-posts). These options are not supported in Comala Publishing Cloud and the documents publishing status may differ for these pages once migrated.
Migrate
Follow the migration process steps to
plan for migration
prepare your cloud site including the install of the Comala Publishing app
use the Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant to migrate your content
You should allocate time for a test migration to understand the steps required to migrate data and complete re-configuration.
Comala Publishing migration will only be fully completed if both the source and the target space are migrated to Cloud.
There are a number of manual migration migration tasks.
In October 2021, Atlassian announced their intention to retire their self-managed server offerings as they move their platform to the cloud. Atlassian intends to complete this journey by February 2024. This means existing customers that want to continue to use Atlassian products, will need to migrate to their cloud or data centre platforms.
FAQ Migration Planning