How do Pipelines handle services in parallel steps?

Victor Furtado

I have the following bitbucket-pipelines.yaml configured in my repository:

pipelines:
  default:
    - parallel:
      - step:
          name: Test API v1
          caches:
            - pip
          script:
            - make test-api-v1
          services:
            - mysql
            - postgres
            - redis
      - step:
          name: Test API v2
          caches:
            - pip
          script:
            - make test-api-v2
          services:
            - mysql
            - postgres
            - redis

definitions:
  services:
    mysql:
      image: mysql:5.6
      environment:
        MYSQL_DATABASE: 'test'
        MYSQL_USER: 'test'
        MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'test'
        MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'test'
    postgres:
      image: postgres:9.5
      environment:
        POSTGRES_DB: 'test'
        POSTGRES_USER: 'test'
        POSTGRES_PASSWORD: 'test'
    redis:
      image: redis

I want to know what is the behavior of the services at each parallel step. Will each step get its own instances of these services? Or will they share the access to the same services instances?

Thanks

Daniel Santos_157bm4

Hi @Victor Furtado

Thank you for sharing the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file.

Each service will have its own container. Services from the same step are linked to the build container for that step, therefore having the same scope of ports.

In your case, the services are in different steps which means that the second step will not use the same services as the first one.

I hope that answers your question. 
Let me know if you need more clarification.