Bitbucket apps / add-ons / plugins / pipelines? Which one? Why?

neomatrix369

Where can I find the differences between these terminologies or are few of them inter-changeably used:

 

Bitbucket apps

Bitbucket add-ons

Bitbucket plugins

Bitbucket pipelines

or anything else?

 

Basically, I would like to know the difference in terms of value it delivers to the end-user.

 

For e.g. what is the equivalent to GitHub app or GitHub Actions in bitbucket? If we would like to develop something for the end-user such that they can toggled (enabled/disabled) at a repository level. The end-user could either manually or automatically (via bitbucket event hooks) trigger to run the app to perform some action on the repository - then what would be the best thing to develop from the above list of options on Bitbucket?

Mikael Sandberg

Hi @neomatrix369,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

The terms apps, add-ons, and plugins are referring to the same thing. These are apps or integration that extends your Bitbucket. It used to be called add-ons or plugins, and about two years ago Atlassian changed the name to Apps. You can find all available apps on the Marketplace or under App Marketplace within Bitbucket.

Bitbucket Pipelines is Atlassian's continuous delivery solution built into Bitbucket Cloud. See Build, test, and deploy with Pipelines for more information.