Why is bitbucket pipelines very slow?

[Fernane Zohair]

Since last week pipelines are very slow, especially the following tasks for each step:

• starting the agent
• cloning

I went from 2 minutes to 6 - 8 minutes per deployment. Have you also experienced the same issues?

[kw · Accepted solution]

Yes, I can confirm that my pipelines are also awfully slow today, some are failing on git checkout :(

[Andrei Kazantsev]

Yes, we've confirm that too, start for every step become incredibly slow,

clonning from repo takes from 10 up to 20 min

[Fernane Zohair]

Well, at least I am glad to read that. I hope they will fix that soon...

[Attila Szeremi]

Yes, Bitbucket Pipelines steps have had huge overhead since I starting using them 3 years ago.

And because of that, despite it being a bad practice, I'm doing everything in a single step, otherwise my 6 minute build time would take 8 minutes or more.

[Jon Blaze]

Can confirm that the build time has increased dramatically.

My usual build time used to be under 2 minutes, now for some odd reason it is now taking a little over 6 minutes.