How to Integrate Jira Server and Azure DevOps in a Way That The Issue Hierarchy is Maintained (2025)
This video shows the Groovy scripting sync logic for Exalate Classic. The logic remains the same for the latest Exalate update in 2026.
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The requirements:
✅ Epics, Features, and Tasks on the Azure DevOps side should map to Stories, Tasks, and Bug on the Jira Server side.
✅ The 3-level hierarchy between the 3 work items on Azure DevOps needs to be maintained effortlessly on the Jira Server side.
Whenever the sync happens, the Jira Server side needs to verify 2 things:
1️⃣ A Task is created according to the issue type mapping.
2️⃣ To make sure that the hierarchy is maintained.