Cardinal Ruler: Configuration Change Management for Jira
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Key highlights of the appA governed deployment pipeline for Jira configuration: packaged, pre-flighted against the target, approved, deployed, retained
Stop retyping changes between Jira sites
The retype cycle disappears. You design the change once on your origin site, and the approved package is what reaches the target site. No runbook to write, nobody transcribing it by hand, nothing to re-test.
Answer the audit question with a file
What changed, who approved it, and why. Each change gets its own folder of plain files in a Git repository your organisation owns, every review round included, so the answer outlives the people who made the change.
See what will change before anything changes
A read-only pre-flight checks the package against the real target site and reports every gap. Each finding has to be decided before the change can pass, and nothing is written to the target until it is approved.
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Cardinal Ruler turns a Jira configuration change into a governed deployment: authored on your origin site, pre-flighted against the real target, approved as a frozen plan, deployed in dependency order, recorded.
Use Cardinal Ruler to:
- Package the configuration and everything it depends on, not a runbook
- See every gap against the target site before anything is written
- Require approval from people who did not design the change
- Deploy only what the approval covered, in dependency order
- Commit what changed, who approved it and why to a Git repository you own
Best for organisations where a Jira configuration change needs review, approval and an audit trail that outlives the people who made it.
Built for regulated organisations by an Atlassian Solution Partner certified to ISO 27001. Runs on Atlassian Forge, so configuration never leaves Atlassian.
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Comprehensive set of documentation from the partner on how this app works
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Privacy policy
Atlassian's privacy policy is not applicable to the use of this app. Please refer to the privacy policy provided by this app's partner.
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This app is not part of the Marketplace Bug Bounty program.
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Cardinal Ruler: Configuration Change Management for Jira integrates with your Atlassian app
Version information
Version 2.6.0•for Jira Cloud
- Release date
- Oct 2nd 2026
- Summary
- Minor version update
- Details
New
- Import steps from an existing change: when you author a change, pull in the steps from one of your own active or completed changes on the same site instead of retyping them. Risk impact is reset on imported steps, because a judgement made for one target does not carry over to another.
- Doc & support at the top of every screen: one click opens the knowledge base and the support portal.
- Release notes in the app: the Release notes link at the top of every screen shows what changed in each release.
- Payment model
- Paid via Atlassian
- License type
- Commercial