How do I restart failed builds?

Question

How would I restart failed builds on the Bitbucket pull request UI?

We have a system where our pull requests go through TeamCity CI/CD

We have couple flaky unit tests that turn green after several retries.

How would I restart those builds?

So far I was relying on resyncing my development branch with the main one, which re-triggers the build.
My colleagues also advised me to push an empty update onto the development branch, but really what I want is to find a button of sorts on the UI to restart the build.

Norbert Csupka · Answer

Hi Evgeny,

Thank you for contacting Atlassian Community! I'm Norbert from Bitbucket Cloud Support, it's nice to meet you! Also, welcome to the Atlassian Community :)

I'd like to inform you that how CI/CD tools work is that Bitbucket Cloud is sending a Webhook event and once this Webhook payload is received by your CI/CD instance, the build is getting triggered.

Unfortunately we don't have the functionality to trigger a manual Webhook payload.

Currently we have a feature request for this as you can see in the link below:

* BCLOUD-20539 - As a customer, I want to be able to manually trigger a webhook

Our development team will give a first-hand update on that ticket if there's any progress made so I would suggest keeping a watch and vote for it.

Do note however that there's no ETA on enhancement request, and all enhancements are implemented with this policy in mind: Implementation of New Features Policy

For now the only workaround which I can think of is to create a commit in the PR, which triggers a Webhook event and sent to your CI/CD tool.

Please let us know if you have any further question?

Best Regards,

Norbert
Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud Support