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| name: forge-ci | ||
| on: | ||
| workflow_dispatch: | ||
| pull_request: | ||
| paths: | ||
| - 'forge/**' | ||
| - '.github/workflows/forge-ci.yml' | ||
| push: | ||
| branches: | ||
| - master | ||
| paths: | ||
| - 'forge/**' | ||
| - '.github/workflows/forge-ci.yml' | ||
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| defaults: | ||
| run: | ||
| working-directory: forge | ||
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| jobs: | ||
| build: | ||
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | ||
| steps: | ||
| - uses: actions/checkout@v4 | ||
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| - uses: actions/setup-node@v4 | ||
| with: | ||
| node-version: '20' | ||
| cache: 'npm' | ||
| cache-dependency-path: forge/package.json | ||
| - run: npm install --omit=optional --no-audit --no-fund | ||
| - run: npm audit --omit=optional --audit-level=moderate | ||
| - run: npm run typecheck | ||
| - run: npm run validate-manifest | ||
| - run: npm run build | ||
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| # Mattermost Confluence Forge bridge | ||
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| This Forge app is the GA replacement for the Atlassian Connect webhook | ||
| descriptor that Atlassian closed for new installs on March 31, 2026. | ||
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| ## What this means for your Confluence site | ||
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| Mattermost publishes one Forge app, and every customer Confluence Cloud | ||
| site installs its own private copy of it. Atlassian enforces strict | ||
| isolation between those copies, so: | ||
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| - Your queued Confluence events, the secret that protects your bridge, | ||
| and any data the bridge holds live only inside your tenant's copy. | ||
| Other Mattermost customers cannot see them, and Mattermost staff | ||
| cannot read them. | ||
| - The bridge does not store Confluence page content anywhere. It only | ||
| forwards events into your own Mattermost server when your Mattermost | ||
| server asks for them. | ||
| - Each tenant gets its own bridge URLs. There is no single URL that | ||
| could be used to read another customer's events. | ||
| - The shared secret used to authenticate Mattermost to the bridge is | ||
| set once by your admin during install and is never sent to or stored | ||
| by Mattermost-the-company. | ||
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| ### If you would rather run the bridge yourself | ||
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| Customers with strict data-residency / compliance requirements, or | ||
| on-prem Mattermost deployments at a scale that would exceed the free | ||
| Forge usage limits on the Mattermost-published bridge, can run the | ||
| bridge themselves under their own Atlassian developer account. The | ||
| Mattermost plugin treats both paths identically — the wizard accepts | ||
| any valid Forge web trigger URL regardless of which Atlassian account | ||
| owns the app. | ||
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| #### Prerequisites | ||
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| - An [Atlassian developer account](https://developer.atlassian.com/console/myapps/) | ||
| for your organisation. Free to create; one account can host the | ||
| bridge app for all your Confluence Cloud tenants. | ||
| - Node.js 22 (LTS) or newer. | ||
| - The Forge CLI: `npm install -g @forge/cli`. Run `forge login` once | ||
| with an API token from | ||
| [id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens](https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens). | ||
| - Confluence Cloud Site Admin on the target tenant. | ||
| - Mattermost System Admin on the target server. | ||
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| #### Step 1 — Get the bridge source | ||
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| Clone the plugin repository and change into the `forge/` directory: | ||
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| ```bash | ||
| git clone https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-confluence.git | ||
| cd mattermost-plugin-confluence/forge | ||
| npm install | ||
| ``` | ||
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| #### Step 2 — Register the app under your developer account | ||
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| ```bash | ||
| forge register | ||
| ``` | ||
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| The CLI will prompt for an app name (e.g. `acme-mattermost-confluence-bridge`) | ||
| and write the generated app ID into `manifest.yml` under `app.id`. This | ||
| ID is yours; do not share the file or the ID outside your organisation. | ||
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| #### Step 3 — Deploy | ||
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| ```bash | ||
| forge deploy --environment production | ||
| ``` | ||
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| This publishes the app to your developer account. It is not visible | ||
| to anyone outside your organisation and is not listed on the Atlassian | ||
| Marketplace. | ||
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| #### Step 4 — Generate a private install link | ||
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| In the | ||
| [Atlassian developer console](https://developer.atlassian.com/console/myapps/), | ||
| open the app you just deployed → **Distribution** → **Sharing** → | ||
| generate a private install link. This link is what your Confluence | ||
| Site Admins (or you, if you are the only tenant) will click to install | ||
| the bridge. | ||
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| #### Step 5 — Tell the Mattermost plugin where the install link lives | ||
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| In Mattermost: **System Console → Plugins → Confluence → Forge Bridge | ||
| Install URL**. Paste the install link from the previous step. Save. | ||
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| You only need to do this once per Mattermost server; the wizard will | ||
| surface this URL to the admin running the Cloud setup. | ||
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| #### Step 6 — Install the bridge on your Confluence Cloud site | ||
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| The Confluence Site Admin clicks the install link from step 4, reviews | ||
| the consent screen (read access to pages and comments, no outbound | ||
| network), and approves the install. Atlassian provisions a per-tenant | ||
| copy of the app: isolated storage, unique web trigger URLs, no shared | ||
| state with any other tenant. | ||
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| #### Step 7 — Get the bridge's web trigger URLs | ||
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| From a terminal authenticated with `forge login` and the same developer | ||
| account that owns the app: | ||
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| ```bash | ||
| forge webtrigger --environment production | ||
| ``` | ||
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| Pick the installed tenant when prompted. The CLI prints two URLs: | ||
| - `drain` → the URL Mattermost will poll | ||
| - `register` → a one-shot URL used to set the shared secret | ||
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| #### Step 8 — Run the Mattermost setup wizard | ||
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| In Mattermost, run `/confluence install cloud`. Step through the | ||
| wizard; when it reaches the **Forge bridge** step, click **Register | ||
| bridge** and paste: | ||
| - `drain` URL from step 7 → "Drain URL" | ||
| - `register` URL from step 7 → "Register URL" | ||
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| The plugin POSTs its auto-generated shared secret to your bridge's | ||
| register endpoint, stores the drain URL in plugin config, and starts | ||
| polling on a 30-second tick. | ||
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| #### Verify | ||
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| In Confluence, edit a page in a space subscribed in Mattermost. Within | ||
| ~30 seconds, the subscribed channel should receive the page-edit | ||
| notification. | ||
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| #### Operational notes | ||
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| - `register` is one-shot. If you need to rotate the shared secret, | ||
| clear `mm.registered` from Forge storage first (use `forge install | ||
| --upgrade` after manually wiping the entry), then re-run the | ||
| Mattermost wizard. | ||
| - Forge storage values are capped at 240 KiB per entry. The bridge | ||
| drops the inline page body for events that would exceed this; the | ||
| channel notification still fires but @-mention DMs are skipped for | ||
| that single oversized event. | ||
| - Forge web trigger throttle is 1000 req/min per app/environment. At | ||
| a 30-second poll cadence that is 2 req/min per tenant, so a single | ||
| self-hosted bridge accommodates ~500 Confluence Cloud tenants before | ||
| throttling. | ||
| - Forge storage is wiped 28 days after the app is uninstalled. The | ||
| bridge is a buffer, not a system of record; the Mattermost plugin | ||
| is the durable side. | ||
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| ## Shape | ||
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| This is a **pull** bridge: | ||
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| - The Forge app subscribes to 8 Confluence events via `trigger` modules | ||
| (page `created`/`updated`/`trashed`/`restored`/`deleted`, comment | ||
| `created`/`updated`/`deleted`) and enqueues each event payload into Forge | ||
| storage under `evt:<cloudId>:<ts>:<rand>`. | ||
| - The Mattermost plugin periodically POSTs to the `drain` web trigger to | ||
| read queued events and ack them. Requests are HMAC-SHA256 signed using a | ||
| shared secret the admin sets via the one-shot `register` web trigger. | ||
| - No `permissions.external.fetch` is declared. The Forge app never makes | ||
| outbound calls. This keeps the install consent screen clean and removes | ||
| the per-customer `manifest.yml` editing the previous push design required. | ||
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| Trade-off: Atlassian's Forge `trigger` module already has up to 3 minutes | ||
| of delivery delay, so the additional ~30s polling latency we add on the | ||
| plugin side is small in context. | ||
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| ## Operator workflow (Mattermost — one-time, ships the app) | ||
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| 1. `npm install` in this directory. | ||
| 2. `forge login` and `forge register` (one-time, generates the app ID — | ||
| paste it into `manifest.yml` under `app.id`). | ||
| 3. `forge deploy --environment production`. | ||
| 4. `forge install --site https://<test-tenant>.atlassian.net` to verify | ||
| on a test tenant. | ||
| 5. From the Atlassian developer console, generate a private distribution | ||
| link and publish it as the `Forge Bridge Install URL` plugin setting | ||
| default for downstream Mattermost installs. | ||
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| ## Customer workflow — Mattermost-published bridge | ||
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| This is the short path for tenants installing the bridge published by | ||
| Mattermost (typically used for trials, evaluation, and small deployments; | ||
| self-hosting is recommended for production scale — see the "If you | ||
| would rather run the bridge yourself" section above for the full | ||
| runbook). | ||
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| 1. Confluence admin clicks the install link from the Mattermost setup | ||
| wizard → app installs on their site (Atlassian creates a per-tenant | ||
| install with isolated storage and unique web trigger URLs). | ||
| 2. Confluence admin runs `forge webtrigger` (or reads the install logs) | ||
| to get the `register` and `drain` URLs. We'll wrap this in a UI Kit | ||
| admin page in a follow-up. | ||
| 3. In Mattermost System Console under Plugins > Confluence: | ||
| - Paste the `drain` URL into "Forge Drain URL". | ||
| - Copy the auto-generated "Forge Bridge Shared Secret". | ||
| 4. POST the secret to the `register` URL once: | ||
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| ```bash | ||
| curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ | ||
| -d '{"secret":"<paste shared secret>"}' \ | ||
| '<register-web-trigger-url>' | ||
| ``` | ||
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| `register` is one-shot — it refuses subsequent calls so a leaked URL | ||
| can't be used to repoint the bridge. To re-register (e.g. rotate the | ||
| secret), clear `mm.registered` from Forge storage first. | ||
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| The Mattermost plugin then polls `drain` on a ticker, verifies each | ||
| event, posts to subscribed channels, and acks drained keys so Forge can | ||
| delete them. | ||
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| ## Develop | ||
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| This directory is its own Node project, independent of the plugin's | ||
| `server/` and `webapp/` builds. CI lives in `.github/workflows/forge-ci.yml` | ||
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| and only fires when `forge/**` changes. | ||
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| ```bash | ||
| npm install --omit=optional # CI install path | ||
| npm install # developer install path, pulls @forge/cli | ||
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| npm run typecheck | ||
| npm run validate-manifest | ||
| npm run build | ||
| npm run ci # all of the above | ||
| npm run deploy # forge deploy | ||
| ``` | ||
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| ## Why these 8 events | ||
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| Direct one-to-one mapping with what the legacy Atlassian Connect descriptor | ||
| used to subscribe to (page + comment lifecycle), re-validated against | ||
| [the Forge Confluence events list](https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/events-reference/confluence/). | ||
| Forge collapses Connect's `removed` onto `deleted`. See | ||
| `server/forge_event_mapping.go` on the plugin side for the explicit mapping. | ||
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| ## Known limits | ||
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| - Forge `trigger` delivery is best-effort (up to ~3 min delay, occasional | ||
| drops). Connect webhooks had the same property, so we are not | ||
| regressing. If drops show up in production we will add a plugin-side | ||
| reconciliation poll over `/wiki/api/v2/pages?sort=-modified-date`. | ||
| - Forge storage is wiped 28 days after uninstall — the queue is buffer, | ||
| not durable state. The plugin is the system of record. | ||
| - Forge web trigger limit: 1000 req/min per app/env/context. At a 30s | ||
| poll cadence, that's 2 req/min per tenant → headroom for ~500 | ||
| installations per environment before throttling. | ||
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| ## Not in scope here | ||
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| - Plugin-side Cloud 3LO OAuth (lives in `server/instance_cloud.go` and | ||
| the Cloud branches of `server/user.go` / `server/flow.go`). | ||
| - Plugin-side polling loop (lives in `server/forge_poller.go`). | ||
| - Migration of existing Connect installs (we leave those running until | ||
| Atlassian's Q4 2026 EOS). | ||
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