JIRA DataCenter AWS template not picking up CatalinaOpts

Summary

When customer tried to deploy JIRA using AWS Cloudformation template for JIRA datacenter he was not able to provide custom options to JIRA through the CatalinaOpts template parameter.

Environment

• AWS Cloudformation deployment

Steps to Reproduce

1. follow the steps in the JIRA datacenter quick start reference
2. When providing the template parameters, try to pass any Java or tomcat options like:
   CatalinaOpts  -Xmx4096m

Expected Results

JIRA process should pick up the options and use them

Actual Results

JIRA just uses its default configuration and no changes happen to the process.
Even editing the parameter default value in the AWS cloudformation template doesn't work.

Workaround

• Modify the option manually after the JIRA data center is deployed using a script.
• Modify the Atlassian AWS template to change the values in JIRA setenv.sh.