Git for Confluence: Security, Compliance, and the Forge Migration

Volkan Selim Cantürk

Growth Marketer

TL;DR

Git for Confluence is the only Confluence Git integration that holds SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701:2019, and Cloud Fortified certifications simultaneously — while supporting all four major Git providers. Built on Atlassian Forge for better performance and tighter platform integration.

Security: SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cloud Fortified

Git for Confluence is SOC 2 declared (Type II), ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27701:2019 certified, Cloud Fortified, and GDPR compliant. No other app in this category holds all of these simultaneously.

What this means in practice: file content is never stored on Git for Confluence's servers — every page view triggers a live fetch from your repository. Read-only access, no write permissions.

For teams in regulated industries — aerospace, defense, financial services, healthcare — these certifications are a procurement requirement, not a nice-to-have.

How Git for Confluence compares

Feature	Git for Confluence	Other Marketplace apps	Manual / other
Marketplace rating	⭐ 3.8	3.0–3.7	N/A
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket & Azure DevOps	✓ All four	▲ Partial	✗
30+ file & diagram formats (Mermaid, PlantUML, OpenAPI…)	✓	▲ Mixed	✗
Auto-sync — content updates when repo changes	✓	▲ Mixed	✗
OAuth & managed access tokens	✓ Both	▲ Partial	✗
Free for teams up to 10 users	✓	✓	✗
SOC 2 Type II certified vendor	✓	▲ Few	✗
ISO 27001:2022 & ISO 27701	✓	▲ Few	✗
Cloud Fortified & built on Atlassian Forge	✓	▲ Few	✗

✓ Strong ▲ Mixed / partial ✗ Not available

Video walkthrough with chapters

Full walkthrough — 13 minutes

Git for Confluence — Embed, Sync, and Share Git Content in Confluence

00:18What problem does Git for Confluence solve?

00:42Who uses it, and why it starts with developers

01:40Why stale docs are a risk, not just an inconvenience

02:19How sync actually works — live, not scheduled

02:52Demo: embedding a file from GitLab

04:35Mermaid, PlantUML, and why it beats drawing tools

06:43Managed vs. individual access

08:28Security: SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cloud Fortified

08:50Compliance documentation in Git

10:30OpenAPI specs as living docs

11:40What Forge unlocks for users

12:32Get started in under 5 minutes

Real-world use cases

Compliance documentation

Keep security policies and audit trails version-controlled in GitLab. Surface them in Confluence. When auditors ask, every version is traceable to a specific commit with timestamp and author.

API documentation

Embed your OpenAPI spec in Confluence and it renders as interactive docs — endpoints, parameters, response schemas. One file maintained by developers, readable by everyone.

Architecture diagrams

Engineers maintain Mermaid or PlantUML files alongside code. Product managers and executives always see the current system state without asking anyone for an update.

Onboarding documentation

READMEs, setup guides, and runbooks stay in the repo. New team members read them in Confluence. When engineers update the process, the docs update too.

Multi-team documentation

Build Confluence spaces that pull content from multiple repositories, all staying in sync, without anyone maintaining duplicate pages.

What Forge brings to Git for Confluence in 2026

Git for Confluence is built on Atlassian's Forge platform — Atlassian's modern, cloud-native app runtime. For users, this means:

Better performance. Forge apps run closer to Confluence's own infrastructure. Page loads with embedded Git content are faster.

Tighter Confluence integration. Forge opens access to the Teamwork Graph, Rovo AI, and Confluence's native permission model — making Git content searchable within Confluence's own search index.

Security model alignment. Forge apps run within Atlassian's own infrastructure boundaries — giving security-conscious customers more assurance about where data is processed.

The embedding workflow stays the same — paste a URL, see the content. What changes is performance, security posture, and what becomes possible next.

New to Git for Confluence? Start with our step-by-step guide to embedding GitLab files in Confluence — covers setup, formats, access control, and how to get started.

Try Git for Confluence free for 30 days. Free for teams up to 10 users. Up and running in under 5 minutes. Start free trial on Marketplace

Frequently asked questions

It's SOC 2 declared, ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27701:2019 certified, Cloud Fortified, and GDPR compliant. File content is never stored on Git for Confluence's servers. Read-only access only, no write permissions. Trusted by Sony, Microsoft, Booking.com, and 500+ organizations worldwide.

Yes. Git for Confluence supports GitHub, GitLab (cloud and self-managed), Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket. It's the only Confluence app covering all four major Git providers.

The core embedding workflow stays the same. Forge brings better performance, tighter Confluence integration, and access to future Atlassian platform features as they ship. No action needed from existing users.

No scheduling needed. Content is fetched live every time a Confluence page is viewed. Nothing is stored on Git for Confluence's servers. The page always reflects the current state of the file in your repository.

For a public repository: under 60 seconds. For a private repository with OAuth: around 5 minutes. For managed access with a token: 10–15 minutes for an admin to configure.