Use an environment variable to set the deployment environment

[Matthew Elwell]

We have our environments named using the same terms as our branches so our bitbucket-pipelines.yml should be as simple as: 

image: python:3.7

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        name: deploy to $BITBUCKET_BRANCH
        deployment: $BITBUCKET_BRANCH
        script:
          - deploy.py $BITBUCKET_BRANCH

When validating this yml, however, it appears that it's not possible to use a variable to define the 'deployment' environment as 'Environment names can use letters, spaces, numbers, underscores or hyphens'. 

Is there a way to use an environment variable to define the deployment environment as per the example above? 

[Daniel Santos · Accepted solution]

Hi @Matthew Elwell

I see you are new here, welcome!

Answering your question:

Is there a way to use an environment variable to define the deployment environment as per the example above? 

No, you cannot use variables for that field as you already discovered. There is a check to cover only the three valid values which are: test, staging, and production. The parser does not allow variables there. You will need to declare each of the values separately.

For more details on our deployment feature, please visit Bitbucket Deployments.