Avoid duplicating deployment code for two branches in BitBucket pipelines

[basvdijk]

I have the following BitBucket pipeline script which preserves some files, does deployment and restores the files.

As shown this applies to the master branch. For the development branch I need exactly the same script. The only difference is that deployment: production will become deployment: development since I need other environment variables, set in BitBucket.

I've looked into https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/yaml-anchors/ for YAML anchors to make this script as a function. But couldn't get it to work.

Is there a way to avoid this part being copied for the development branch?

branches:
  master:
    - step:
      name: Deployment to production
      deployment: production
      trigger: manual
      script:
        - echo "Deploying to prod..."
        - pipe: atlassian/scp-deploy:1.0.1
        variables:
          USER: $DOMAIN
          SERVER: $SERVER
          REMOTE_PATH: '~/public/prod'
          LOCAL_PATH: 'dist/*'

[Oleksandr Kyrdan]

Hi @basvdijk ,

Thank you for your question!

We have tested examples provided in the  YAML anchors guide and overrides works good, where variable NAME setup in different deployments (test, development, production):

definitions: 
  steps:
    - step: &build-test
      name: Build and test
      script:
       - echo "Build and test"

    - step: &deploy
      name: Deploy
      deployment: test
      script:
        - echo "Hello ${NAME}"

pipelines:
  branches:
    development:
      - step: *build-test
      - step: *deploy
      - step:
        <<: *deploy
        name: Deploy development
        deployment: development

    master:
      - step: *build-test
      - step: 
        <<: *deploy
        name: Deploy Test
      - step:
        <<: *deploy
        deployment: production
        trigger: manual

It could be useful to check names for your deployments, because by default it starts with capital letter but you use small instead: Test vs test, Production vs production.

It would be nice if you provide us with more details to help you.

Cheers,
Oleksandr Kyrdan