Integration between Jira and Bitbucket or Jira and Github is facilitated by a DVCS connector. Setting up this integration will allow you to associate your Essentials+ work items or deployments with a Jira ticket (aka user story).

To connect Jira to Bitbucket, please follow this guide: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/connect-jira-cloud-to-bitbucket-cloud-814188428.html

To connect Jira to Github, please follow this guide: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/connect-jira-cloud-to-github-814188429.html

Once you connected Jira to Bitbucket or Github via either of the steps above, Copado Essentials will ensure that deployment activities including Git commits, branches and pull requests are automatically reflected in Jira. All you need to do is to associate each Copado Essentials deployment with a Jira Issue, like below:

As soon as you perform a Git commit via Copado Essentials, you can see development activities updated immediately in Jira as below: