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Cannot enable Pipelines on Bitbucket Free
Hi, I am unable to turn on Pipelines in my repos. When I go to Settings of the particular repo then Pipelines and Finally Settings I can see a slider button to enable the pipelines. When I click it, it just changes to grey but nothing actually happens. If I refresh the page the button is back to disabled. I have MFA auth…
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How do you handle secrets and credentials securely in pipelines?
In real-time environments, handling secrets and credentials securely in CI/CD pipelines is critical to protect sensitive data such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and tokens. I follow a combination of best practices, secure tools, and access controls to ensure secrets are never exposed. 1. Use Dedicated Secret…
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Bitbucket Cloud pipelines: trigger variables rejected at 10,240 bytes since 2026-07-08 — intended ch
Since ~05:00 UTC on 2026-07-08, triggering a pipeline via POST /2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repo}/pipelines with custom variables started returning HTTP 400: "Variables exceed the maximum allowed count or total size. Maximum count: 50, Maximum total size: 10240 bytes." ...for requests that succeeded fine before that…
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Testing Pipelines Locally
I'm looking for ways to validate my pipelines will run before sending them to PR. Is there a simple way to write tests for the bitbucket-pipeline.yml file? For example a pipeline that builds and deploys a react app, I would want to run the build step, verify the build files are there then ftp to a mocked location, or maybe…
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NRF Connect SDK Jlink license agreement
Hello! I am developing a firmware for Nordic MCU and I want to set up a pipeline in my repository for building a firmware. I successfully did similar thing on GitHub with the help of their action and a docker image from Nordic. However, I am struggling to do the same in Bitbucket. Here is the part of my…
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Future for self-hosted runner V4
This article mentions self-hosted runners V5 is premium and V3 is free. https://www.atlassian.com/blog/bitbucket/announcing-the-next-chapter-for-bitbucket-pipelines-runners However there is no mention of V4 except for some user comments. What will happen to them. I am looking for official Atlassian documentation. Must we…
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Overview of all pipelines in workspace or project
In Bamboo, you could get a dashboard, containing all current builds running, and the status for each. In Bitbucket Cloud, while I potentially can see the build status (not always working), I wonder if there is some way to have a better overview of builds for, say, the last 24 hours (or maybe configurable?), without having…
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Skip a step in a stage
Hi, i read about the dynamic condition in steps and try for make a stage like "deploy" but using steps with conditions for things like: build and publish image but not run an infra deploy. like this. deploy-to-dev: - variables: - name: STEPS_TO_RUN default: build-publish-deploy allowed-values: - build-publish-deploy -…
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The first 2 weeks expirience: Pain-Points
Yes, this is not a question. But more feedback from a 'fresh' eyes on it. Background : - Small team ~10 people. - Years old code base. Non-trivial build, but also not big-enterprise scale build. - Migration away from on prem. - We are not using runners, but the provided built-in machines. The positives: - Built in to…
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Dynamic step conditions state option not supported by pipelines schema
Hi, apparently, your pipelines configuration schema doesn't fully support Dynamic Step Conditions. At least, the following would flagged as a misconfiguration - step: name: "conditional step" condition: state: MY_PIPELINE_VAR == "my_value" Please keep the configuration schema updated. Best regards!
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API REST / bitbucket minutes limit
Hello everyone, I'm looking for an REST API endpoint to check the minutes consumed by my runners. I can't find anything in https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/rest/api-group-pipelines/ but some old issues like: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-13637 Is there any way to check the time spent by my builds?…
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Can a pipeline step with a concurrency-group run a pipeline with a manual trigger?
Given this bitbucket-pipelines.yml with a `default` pipeline with `concurrency-group`, `condition: state: ...`, and `type: pipelines` with `trigger: manual` in the child pipeline: What is the expected behavior for concurrent builds hitting the `trigger: manual`? Assuming #1 is waiting at the trigger, is #2 * waiting for…
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Retry the step only on the System Error
So i am referring to the blog posts here * Introducing step failure strategies in Bitbucket Pipelines - Work Life by Atlassian * Introducing the “retry” step failure strategy for Bitbucket Pipelines - Work Life by Atlassian My step, in sense of flow looks, something like follows: - step: &StepName name: StepName runs-on: -…
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Can a parent pipeline access the output-variables from a child pipeline
Is it possible for a parent pipeline run, that spawns a child pipeline, to access the `output-variable` from the child pipeline? e.g. Running something like this, where the parent pipeline echos the value of $ec2Status in the child?: ``` image: atlassian/default-image:3 steps:dummy-retrain:- step: &dummy-retrainname: Dummy…
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Rovo Dev code Review not triggered when pull request is created
I have enabled ROVO DEV Code Review to my repositories and it was posting suggestions. However, Approximately 10days later no suggestions are sign of Rovo Dev reviewed codes from pull request.
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Pipeline config to allow concurrent deployments to same environment
I have a custom pipeline for each of my applications. They are structured in a way which they do not affect each other. I have four different deployment environments (dev, qa, etc). There are deployment variables which differ between each environment. In trying to see if there's a way to deploy different pipelines to the…
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Do self-hosted runners consume build minutes?
Good day, everyone. We are currently considering to migrate a Jenkins-based CI/CD infrastructure to Bitbucket Pipelines and need clarification on build minute consumption for self-hosted runner since there is no mention about this in the pricing page and documentation. If we run pipelines exclusively on our own self-hosted…
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Mistake in Blog post
Hi, I think there is a mistake in the Introducing Dynamic Step Condition for Bitbucket Pipelines blog post. pipelines: default: - step: name: Deploy to production condition: state: block_deployment == false script: - echo "Only run when block_deployment == true" But I think it should be echo "Only run when block_deployment…
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create a new self-hosted runner
Hello there, I'm looking for a mechanism to create self-hosted runners in our clouds, but I can't find an REST API call to bitbucket to create a new runner. So far, I can create a custom pipe to handle the needed azure calls to create a new VM, install the runner.jar and so on, but looks like there is not API call to…
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Bitbucket pipes and SSL certificates
Hi all, I'm trying to use the "sonarqube-scan" pipe: https://bitbucket.org/sonarsource/sonarqube-scan But to connect to our sonarqube server, we need to have certificates installed to make the connection to our server. Is there a way to provide SSL certificates to be used in pipes? Are there any other practices used to…
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Artifacts created by pipes (type PIPE_DATA) not showing on artifacts tab anymore
Since some change in pipelines UI that display artifacts type sections (Users Pipe Data etc), PIPE_DATA artifacts are not showing on artifacts tab anymore. Is any change required on organization / repository level now to return to previous behavior?
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FEATURE REQUEST - Change colors for pause status
It would be nice to have a different status color for things that are paused. It would help bring attention to items that need manual intervention, vs passed, and failed runs. I would assume it's a simple change to implement
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Concurrency Group
Is it possible to use concurrency group like this? Looks like not, it does not support dynamic variables? The reason we were looking for this was to find a way to limit concurrent runs of same branch in pipeline. Due to new DRAFT PR feature every commit gets run in the pipeline (because we have the setup to run in PR…
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--privileged not working on a self hosted runner.
I'm trying to use the --privileged tag on a self hosted runner but I keep getting an error stating that it's not allowed. I've run the same step on bitbucket's docker and it runs fine. To keep things basic, I'm currently using code cut and pasted from the support page detailing the use of runtime v3. The only difference I…
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pipeline fails with apt-get: command not found
Hi all: I tried to run one of my pipelines today and get the message <span>+ apt-get update</span><span>bash: apt-get: command not found</span><span>it uses the following image:</span>image: bitnami/git The pipeline is run via https://bitbucket.org/myaccountname/myrepo/pipelines When I ran it end of September all was still…