Atlassian Crowd experiences?

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webwesen picture webwesen · Feb 5, 2009 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

we (a team of about 150) are considering moving our ALM solution from Bugzilla/CVS to Jira/svn/Confluence/Bamboo/Fisheye. SO has a lot of good info on those, but I would be interested to learn about another tool from Atlassian - a Single Sign On (SSO) Crowd, I am considering adding it to the mix for an LDAP integration with our Novell id's.

  • has someone had any experience with Crowd?
  • how does it handle 100/200/500 (after recession, that is) users?
  • any tips/tricks?
  • would you choose different, open source SSO solutions?

thanks

EDIT: a year has passed...

We got Crowd and went with ActiveDirectory integration along with internal Crowd directory (for short-term contractors, etc.). So far the solution works just great.

EDIT2: Another year: still going strong (We have 1K users now). Nested groups is a killer feature, thankfully it is working fine after last point release.

EDIT3: mid-2012 - 7.5K users - going strong. with a little automation for onboarding (Confluence pages with Ajaxified forms + a little Crowd plugin)

Answer

doflynn picture doflynn · Feb 12, 2009

Major disclosure: I'm the Crowd Product Manager. So, apply as much NaCl as you think wise.

I'd be very surprised if you had any issues with 500 users. Especially since Novell seems to be one of the better directory servers in terms of performance. The only time I'd expect to see problems is if your Crowd server and Novell directory server are on opposite sides of the world. Don't do that unless you have to :-)

We have plenty of users connecting thousands of users to JIRA, Confluence, and the Dev Tools with Crowd.

Any issues - drop us a line ([email protected] or http://support.atlassian.com) and we'll help out.

Cheers, Dave.

ps: I hope that didn't come off as a sales pitch or "we make magic products that are perfect in every possible way, now give us your money!"

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