is there a way to have the build and deployment run separately in bitbucket pipeline?

Question

Hello all,

I am quite new bitbucket pipe lines and while exploring it came across a few questions.

The bitbucket_pipeline.yaml file that I create at the moment does the build, push image and deploys the image in to our GCP account. that is all done in one configure file.

Is there a way for me to segregate the build and deployment? I mean a yaml config that will only do the build and push while another yaml to run the deployment? Plus I can see that we need to keep the build yaml file in the repo with the code, Can we have the pipeline yaml files in a different repo? As I do not want anyone who can pull the code down to their PC or server know how the build and deployment process works.

ktomk · Answer

If you want to do this with multiple repositories, you may be interested in the trigger-pipeline pipe.

ktomk · Answer

Hello @Kevin Chu

this still sounds like artifacts, but you need a way to share them so that the one repository can upload them and the other repository can download them.

If the revision is part of the object scheme of these artifacts, it is easily possible to trigger the deployment pipeline, provide the revision (you can pass variables with the trigger) and have the deployment pipeline fetch it.

Would that fulfill your needs or at least give some inspiration?

Kevin Chu_mlbs9y · Answer

Hello Ktomk,

Talking about the starting point, I have already managed to do that and adding steps to the buildpipeline is not an issue here.

I want to separate the build and deploy pipeline from the code. What I mean is there is a repo for code and another repo where the build/deploy pipeline configs are. When there is a pull request on the code repo it triggers the build and deploy repo to run the pipeline