Enhance your DevOps toolchain with Integrated CI/CD
The seamless way to connect Bitbucket to leading CI/CD solutions accelerates developer velocity and speeds up production time.
When Atlassian first launched Bitbucket nearly a decade ago, the vision was simple: to create a centralized place for enterprise teams to design and manage their source code. Since then, the mission has expanded by bringing a Git solution to professional teams, enabling users to be more efficient, innovate faster, and deliver better value to their businesses. For teams implementing DevOps, it has further emphasized the need to integrate work across the entire development lifecycle. Bitbucket Server & Data Center represents another step in this evolution with the release of Integrated CI/CD, a seamless way to connect Bitbucket to leading CI/CD solutions that boosts developer speed and accelerates production.
Integrated CI/CD allows for a streamlined workflow that is easy to use and provides contextual feedback at every stage of the software development lifecycle without leaving your Bitbucket instance. This means less context switching, fewer manual tasks, and more time to focus on code.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Atlassian doesn’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to DevOps, so when creating Integrated CI/CD, it wanted to ensure teams have the flexibility to choose the tools they want to use. Whether your team is within the Atlassian suite and prefers to use Bamboo, or if you prefer Jenkins, it’s easy to plug and play your CI/CD pipeline into Bitbucket. Integrated CI/CD also introduces two new ways to get continuous feedback on your code in Bitbucket: a new Builds page and a new Builds tab on the Pull Request page. By bringing build results right next to your code, it equips developers with all the right tools to respond to changes without losing time jumping between applications.
Why Upgrade from Server to Data Center?
For teams using Bitbucket’s enterprise version, Bitbucket Data Center offers smart mirroring to minimize work disruptions and alleviate bottlenecks often caused by the backlog of CI builds. Initially created to improve Git read and clone performance, smart mirror farms now allow teams to cluster mirrors in groups running read-only copies of repositories behind a load balancer, increasing CI/CD capacity and reducing production time.
Do Your Best Work
According to Atlassian data, teams that implement DevOps release more frequently with higher quality and stability. The integration of Bitbucket and Jira shows that teams using these solutions together release 14% more frequently than those that don’t.
This combination allows users to customize branching models, workflow triggers, and Git hooks to create a workflow that works for teams of any size. Additionally, general overhead tasks like transitioning, adding comments, or creating new issues can be done without leaving your Bitbucket instance, allowing teams to work where they perform best. As the source of truth, Jira streamlines the necessary coordination present at every stage of the development process, meaning fewer meetings and less disruption.
Enhance Collaboration and Trust
Building a culture of collaboration and trust is key to any high-performing DevOps team. To strengthen communication and provide teams with various ways to collaborate, Atlassian offers the following solutions:
- Slack integration keeps your teammates up to date on everything happening in Bitbucket and enables them to react to changes.
- The Atlassian Community offers exclusive AMAs and best practices from different company SMEs.
- Confluence serves as a place for anyone in the business to share updates, communicate goals, have inspiring conversations, and share new ways of working.
Just the Beginning
As Atlassian continues to invest in Bitbucket and expand its integrations with other solutions to boost developer velocity, adding new features to Integrated CI/CD will remain a top priority.