Aborting/cancel previous Bitbucket pipeline execution on new Trigger.

komalashokkumar_jain

Hi Team, 

 

I have a unique problem to solve. We are trying to save precious execution time. Issue is -  We have pipeline job that triggers on creating PR, and re-triggers on every new commit to branch. We want a way to cancel old execution if a new pipeline job has been triggered for the same branch / PR. 

Is there a way to achieve this?

Theodora Boudale

Hi @komalashokkumar_jain,

I'm afraid that there is no automated way to do that.

You could write a script that uses our APIs to do the following, and then use that script at the beginning of each pull requests Pipelines build:

• get all Pipelines builds for the repo
• filter the results to get pipelines that are currently running
• filter further the results to get the pull request pipelines
• filter further the results to get pipelines that run on the same PR as the current pipeline
• exclude the current pipeline from the results
• use our API to stop these pipelines

You can check below the script another customer developed to do something similar:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/Pipeline-triggered-from-different-repos/qaq-p/2158907#M86715

Please note that their use case was different and it did not concern builds that run on PRs but builds that run on branches, so some adjustments would be needed to achieve what you are looking for.

Kind regards,
Theodora