Why isn't the deployment promote button showing up when using deployment stages instead of steps?

[José Trancas]

I was trying out the Bitbucket pipelines feature, and I built a very simple CI/CD pipeline as a set of steps, where there were deployment steps in there, as a result, I had a "Promote" button showing up in the deployments dashboard. However, when I re-organized the pipeline by using stages where the deployment steps were done inside a deployment stage, the promote button disappeared and I had to open the pipeline and click "Deploy" on the desired stage to achieve the same goal. Is there a clear reason for this change of behaviour? having a "Promote" button directly in the deployments dashboard seems to be a much more interesting option for a user experience, independently on how you organize a pipeline.

[Mark C]

Hi @José Trancas

Welcome to the community.

Unfortunately, it is currently a known issue that there's no "Promote" button for stages configuration in Bitbucket Cloud Pipelines.

We do have a public ticket tracking it here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-22402

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Regards,
Mark C