Bitbucket Pipelines Templating DRY Not working

Question

Hello,

I want to use bitbucket DRY feature with yaml anchors.

branches:
master:
            - step: *build

definitions:
steps:
       - step: &build
            image: openjdk:11.0-jdk-buster
name: Build and test vol di
script:
              - date +%Y-%m-%d_%H%M > bld_date
artifacts:
              - bld_date

I get:

What I am doing wrong?

Norbert Csupka · Answer

Hi Janis,

Thank you for contacting Atlassian Community. My name is Norbert and I'm a Bitbucket Cloud Support Engineer, it's nice to meet you! Welcome to the Atlassian Community :)

Based on my observation, you have the "definition" part after the "pipelines" part. Can I ask you to move the "definition" part above the "pipelines" part and let me know if that makes any difference, please?

Pipelines need to know the "definition" part first, before it can initiate the "pipelines" part, I suspect that's the reason why it's failing. In case it's still not working, can I ask you to share the your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file with us masking all the private/confidential information so that I can review your configuration?

I'm looking forward to hear from you.

Best Regards,
Norbert
Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud Support