How to gracefully skip deployment without marking the deployment as successful?

Question

BitBucket deployment correlates with JIRA card. So, when deploy using pipeline, the card status reflects the step failure/successful result. On the other hand, I need a way to skip deployment altogether, because some commits' requirement (e.g. incomplete commits).

By exiting with `exit -1`, this will stop the pipeline entirely. By exiting with `exit 0` it marked the deployment as successful. How to skip this deployment and take a middle road to still continue the pipeline AND marked the deployment step as skip?

Theodora Boudale · Accepted Answer

Hi @Abdillah,

I'm afraid that this is not possible at the moment. A pipeline step needs to be completed successfully for the next steps to be executed.

We have a feature request for what you are asking:

* https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-20833

You can see here the latest update by one of Bitbcuket's Product Managers regarding this feature:

* https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-20833?focusedId=3342917&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-3342917

You can add your vote to this feature request to express your interest and you can also add yourself as a watcher if you'd like to be notified via email on updates.

In the meantime, one thing you could do is create a separate custom pipeline for each deployment environment and execute the one(s) you want manually:

* https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/pipeline-start-conditions/#Custom--manual--pipelines

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Kind regards,
Theodora