Will Bitbucket Pipelines run if the file is bitbucket-pipelines.yaml, or must it always be yml?

[Steve Annett]

According to yaml.org, the official file extension of YAML is .yaml, but often applications will accept both, for example Docker Compose looks for docker-compose.yml and docker-compose.yaml.

Will Bitbucket Pipelines run if the file is bitbucket-pipelines.yaml, or must it always be yml?

There are some articles that suggest it would accept a yaml extension, e.g. https://bitbucket.org/blog/share-ci-config

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi Steve,

The file needs to be bitbucket-pipelines.yml, Pipelines will not run if you use bitbucket-pipelines.yaml.

The .yaml extension in the blog post you shared is a typo, I will reach out to my team internally to fix it in order to avoid confusion.

Kind regards,
Theodora