Using bitbucket Deployments - still have multiple concurrent deployment steps in separate pipelines

[Jackie F_]

According to
https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/deployment-concurrency-control/

It says: " By tracking your deployments using Bitbucket Deployments, Pipelines will automatically check if there is a deployment in progress before starting a new one to the same environment. If there is already a deployment in progress, later pipelines deploying to the same environment will be paused. "

Steps I've taken:

1. I have set up Deployments and created the staging (and production) environments in Deployments.

2. In my bitbucket_pipelines.xml I have added "deployment: staging" to my pipeline step for "Deploy to staging"

However, still, if 2 pipelines are started around the same time, both of the Deployment steps run at the same time in the 2 separate pipelines.

Only one of the deployments shows up in the Deployments tab for that environment, which ever one starts first, but, the other/second pipeline is still running the steps for the Deploy step too for the same environment.

Am I misunderstanding that the second pipeline's "Deploy to staging" step shouldn't be starting because Deployments is set up and a deployment is already running?

On this page: 

https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/set-up-and-monitor-deployments/

 it also says:

"Note: you can only have one in-progress deployment in each environment. Any later pipelines that deploy to the same environment will be automatically paused. You can manually resume the paused deployment step once the in-progress deployment completes."

That's what I want to happen, but that's not what is happening in the Pipelines. What have I missed?

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi Jackie and welcome to the community!

This is the expected behavior:

By tracking your deployments using Bitbucket Deployments, Pipelines will automatically check if there is a deployment in progress before starting a new one to the same environment. If there is already a deployment in progress, later pipelines deploying to the same environment will be paused. 

I cannot reproduce the issue you are reporting, so I am going to need some additional info to better help you:

1. You mention in your post a bitbucket_pipelines.xml file. The file where you specify Pipelines behavior needs to be named bitbucket-pipelines.yml, and not bitbucket_pipelines.xml.

Can you please confirm if you have a file named bitbucket-pipelines.yml in the repo?

2. Can you please provide a screenshot of the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file in your repo? You can blur the commands of each step's script in the screenshot, I just want to see the structure, keywords used etc.

3. I don't see a Bitbucket Cloud account in our system with the email of your community account. Are you using Bitbucket with a different account?

Kind regards,
Theodora