It is possible to override a variables inside a pipeline YAML anchor?

Fernando Arteaga May 6, 2021

Following the official documentation for YAML anchors: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/yaml-anchors/#Override-values, a question arises.

Since it is possible to make substitutions within a step, such as injecting a new name to the step. Is it possible to somehow inject a new value for a variable? Please see my example below to better explain my question.

definitions:
steps:
-step: &my-step
name: 'I want to replace this and I can'
script:
- export TO_BE_CHANGED='I want to replace this and I can not'

pipelines:
branches:
master:
-step:
<<: *my-step
name: 'Injecting new name'
$TO_BE_CHANGED = 'Injecting new value'

Is there any way to modify the value of the variable TO_BE_CHANGED?

 

Thank you

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Justin Thomas
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May 12, 2021

@Fernando Arteaga We don't currently support overriding variables. Have you considered using deployment environments to override variables?

Fernando Arteaga May 13, 2021

I am working on the CI side for now, and I am not looking for automating the deployments yet.

Although I think it could be a super nice feature to override more things inside the definitions. It really could help to reduce the size of the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file and improve the code's reusability.

Thank you for the answer

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Vadym Polietaiev October 4, 2023

is it still no option to overriding variables inside anchor?

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