how to set variable in steps

[Nawang Lama]

how to set variable in multiple steps in parallel. 

[Ben]

Hi Nawang,

May you please clarify what is meant by setting variables in multiple steps? Do you mean setting a variable in a particular step, then sharing that value with other steps?

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Nawang Lama]

Hello Ben,

basically we want to setup global variable which can be called in different steps as required.

Global
variables:
    DEV_ENV: dev_CLUSTER
    DEVOPS_ENV: devops_CLUSTER
    VERSION: 1

step:
    name: DEV
     script: 
         - execute in $DEV_ENV with $VERSION

step:
    name: DEVOPS
    variables: 
        VERSION: 2
     script: 
         - execute in $DEVOPS_ENV with $VERSION

[Ben]

Hi @Nawang Lama 

If you would like a static global environment variable that can be called across any step in the repository - you should configure a repository variable, these can be called as $VARIABLENAME as you have mentioned in your YML configuration:

• https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/variables-and-secrets/

If you would like an environment variable that can be set to different values throughout the course of your build, you would need to set the variable in the build - then pass it to other steps as an artifact, here is a Stack Overflow article that explains how to achieve this:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52481242/make-variable-visible-across-steps-in-bitbucket-pipelines

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Nawang Lama]

Hi @Ben 
Thank you very much for the message. I am using the same method now but will be much better if we can use variables in step it self for readability of the pipelines. Thank you.