How to migrate from the Bamboo AWS Plugin to Tasks for AWS (Bamboo)

You want to migrate from the deprecated Bamboo AWS Plugin to its successor Tasks for AWS to gain new features and improvements and commercial support:

Step-by-step guide

Unfortunately there is no upgrade path from the Bamboo AWS Plugin to Tasks for AWS for technical reasons outside of our control. To ease the migration, you can start using both apps side by side and mix and match tasks from each within a job.

1. Install Tasks for AWS.

2. Start creating tasks from Tasks for AWS exclusively for new plans.

3. Replace existing tasks from the Bamboo AWS Plugin with the functionally identical (though possible extended) tasks in Tasks for AWS. Both sets of AWS related tasks can be differentiated as follows:

Tasks for AWS supports the new Bamboo 5 Deployment Projects, so you'll only find one set of AWS related tasks in a deployment project
Tasks for AWS features updated icons with a 3D appearance via shadows
Tasks for AWS has simplified task names (except for the CloudFormation task):

AWS Service	Bamboo AWS Plugin	Tasks for AWS

AWS Service	Bamboo AWS Plugin	Tasks for AWS
Amazon EC2	¹⁾ Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshot	Amazon EBS Snapshot
	¹⁾ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Image	Amazon EC2 Image
	¹⁾ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance	Amazon EC2 Instance
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)		Amazon ECS Cluster
		Amazon ECS Service
		Amazon ECS Task
		Amazon ECS Task Definition
Amazon S3		Amazon S3 Object
AWS CloudFormation	²⁾ AWS CloudFormation Stack	AWS CloudFormation Stack
AWS CodeDeploy		AWS CodeDeploy Application
		AWS CodeDeploy Deployment
		AWS CodeDeploy Deployment Group
AWS Elastic Beanstalk		AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application
		AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application Version
		AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment
AWS Lambda		AWS Lambda Event Source Mapping
		AWS Lambda Function
AWS OpsWorks		AWS OpsWorks App
		AWS OpsWorks Deployment
AWS Step Functions		AWS Step Functions State Machine

Extended | Supported | Restrictions | Unsupported

¹⁾ Tasks for AWS supports some additional features | ²⁾ Tasks for AWS supports many additional features

4. Disable/Uninstall the Bamboo AWS Plugin once all desired tasks are provided by Tasks for AWS.

Providing an explicit (automated) migration option is not out of the question, but a disproportionate amount of work for us right now - please get in touch, if your use case requires a migration option regardless, we are willing to discuss this on a case by case basis.

Step-by-step guide

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