Bitbucket Blitz | Change Gating in Bitbucket Pipelines

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Welcome to the Bitbucket Blitz video series. The series features a library of short-form videos that, as a collection, capture the end-to-end flow developers use to get sh&t done with our Software Collection. There is a specific focus on Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines features.

A better developer experience is a few steps away.

I got into software development because I enjoy building software and solving problems for my customers. When it’s time to deploy to production, guardrails like change management—with approvals and auditability—are put in place to protect customers from potential breaking changes. If those guardrails require developer intervention, they add significant friction to the development process.

In the first video in the new Bitbucket Blitz video series, I demonstrate how to setup change gating in Bitbucket and Jira Service Management. This feature pauses Bitbucket Pipeline execution before deploying to production and automatically creates a change request in Jira Service Management.

When the change is reviewed and approved, Bitbucket Pipelines automatically continues the deployment without developer intervention.

This feature frees developers to continue building software and solving problems for their customers while working within established governance and compliance processes.

Resources to get you going 

You can check out the entire Bitbucket Blitz video series here.

About the author

Warren is a former developer turned technical evangelist who joined Atlassian in 2021. He has worked on everything from COBOL telecoms software running on mainframes to modern cloud infrastructure at AWS. He has a passion for technology and a research background in machine learning. As a technical evangelist, Warren builds awareness of the capabilities of Atlassian products demos, writings, and videos. You can often find him at conferences like Team and re:Invent. Warren also curates the Developer’s Edge video series (link).

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