6 ms·

Atlassian announces Bitbucket Deployments: Confidence to release early and often

44 points by ClaireMaynie 9y ago

notimewaste 9y ago
does this support any other CI like jenkins apart from bitbucket-pipelines?
- ClaireMaynie 9y ago
  Today, Deployments is only for users of Bitbucket Pipelines. However, there are plans to add API for third party CI tools like Jenkins and others.
- bcmoney 9y ago
  One idea I've seen broadly recommended if you don't want to run your whole tech stack & all environments (Test & Prod environment servers/DBs) in the cloud, i.e. as a DockerHub container or something, is to instead use WebHooks or CURL requests to call localized Jenkins CI within your private/local network to then kick off final builds/deployments to real environments that way, after the initial build succeeds and possibly even a throwaway environment gets spun up and tests pass in the Cloud. That can be done using either the built-in Jenkins API https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API or "Trigger Builds Remotely" Build Trigger option (which basically uses the same mechanism with your own Job-specific token/key). Nice feature is that BitBucket Pipelines supports "environment variables" to enable securely storing Jenkins API keys or tokens that let you securely tunnel through corporate FW rules and the like: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/environment-variables-in-bitbucket-pipelines-794502608.html https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/environment-varia...
deleted 9y ago
[deleted]
ulinaaron 9y ago
I can't wait to use this. Is there planned support for FTP/SFTP? I only saw deployment plans for container-like services. Right now I have a pipeline script wrote using lftp but I'd prefer first-party support for SFTP deployments.
- jeroenderaedt 9y ago
  You should be able to deploy using FTP or SFTP with Bitbucket Pipelines already. A guide on how to set up SFTP (including SSH keys) can be found here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/How-do-I-set-up-ssh-public-key-authentication-so-that-I-can-use/qaq-p/171671 https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/How-d...
mariushop 9y ago
Nice move, Atlassian, linking directly to this post from the promo email.
- sogen 9y ago
  That's why im here :)
andre991 9y ago
TOP!!! When will you provide this feature?
- ClaireMaynie 9y ago
  This feature is live now for anyone who signs up for early access: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/pipelines-alpha-877358733.html https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/pipelines-alpha-8...
erwinm 9y ago
Will there be support for deployments to a (test) environment per branch?
- ClaireMaynie 9y ago
  In the early release, it's not possible: the 3 default environments are at the moment just for the repository, not per branch. You can deploy from multiple branches to the same environment though. Can you elaborate on why this would be helpful for you?
  - concis10n 9y ago
    Branch-specific test environments would allow regression testing to happen _before_ changes get merged (I've used Travis to do this). I would love to have this kind of test isolation in our CI environment.
  - erwinm 9y ago
    I was asking because we build a product that is deployed at customer site, so deployments would not be useful for that. But, we do deploy our own product to test environments for manual testing. (We also have automatic testing, but thats per commit and removed after testing... so not relevant here.) We have the following branches (simplified): master release-4.2.x release-5.0.x release-5.1.x Now, I was thinking to use the deployments feature to track the deployment of the test environment of each branch. So our testers can see the status of their test environment.
- mryall 9y ago
  You can do this already in Bitbucket Pipelines and your preferred PaaS provider -- just set up a manual step on your branch pipeline to deploy it. We built Deployments to help teams track changes in their _shared_ environments, which is where most of the value for tracking is. Who would want to see a history of deployments for a branch-specific environment? What information would they be looking for?
theconstantium 9y ago
When will you provide this awesome feature?
geoandrew 9y ago
My main pain point with deployment is with servers that are not directly accessible from the Internet. For example, an EC2 instance that sits in a private section of an AWS VPC. Accessing the server is done through a Bastion server/Jumpbox. AWS CodeDeploy is the only solution I've found in this environment and it sucks. Can the new system ssh proxy through a Bastion server?
- mryall 9y ago
  Yes, you can set up SSH keys to connect to your jumpbox from Bitbucket Pipelines: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-ssh-keys-in-bitbucket-pipelines-847452940.html https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-ssh-keys-in-b... At the moment, direct access to your Amazon resources requires an access key configured via secure variables in Pipelines. We'd consider adding support for IAM roles/key rotation if a lot of people would find it useful.
  - natbobc 9y ago
    Would be useful for stuff like; - kubernetes - elastic beanstalk I'm currently using the "custom" section with a plugin I developed to deploy to environments. In the default build it pushes the build to Elastic Beanstalk and then deploys to test. The custom builds merely promote the build for other environments.
nalbion 9y ago
I'd like to see a mechanism to coordinate deployment dependencies - if the front-end and back-end(s) are stored in separate repos it may be necessary for the back-end to be upgraded before deploying the new front-end.
nalbion 9y ago
How are roll-backs performed? Can a roll-back be executed automatically if smoke tests fail?
sheraz 9y ago
Cool feature! I will be pushing this into our pipline scripts this week. I'm pleasently surprised that bitbucket-pipelines has actually worked this well. So well that we have turned off our Jenkins server. Nice work, atlassian!
- vikasbirru 9y ago
  i con't able to see new future(bit bucket deployments ) in bit bucket i can go for that
- seanjregan 9y ago
  So did this guy- https://medium.com/@shanecfast/firing-the-butler-migrating-from-jenkins-to-bitbucket-pipelines-3712db5ba0ab https://medium.com/@shanecfast/firing-the-butler-migrating-f...
vikasbirru 9y ago
hi team this is birru you're shared new future in bit-bucket (bit-bucket deployments) but it not visible in bit-bucket account i am searched is there any add-on future there no add-on there is no future in bit how can i go to use deployments future in bitbucket
basilin 9y ago
Seems good
intellix 9y ago
Looks great but imagine there are no plans to release it for Bitbucket Server as with every other feature that comes 2 years later. AKA Abandonware
- mryall 9y ago
  Bamboo integrates with Bitbucket Server and has great deployment support. In many ways, we’re just catching up on the cloud side. Do you use Bamboo? Anything you’d like to see improved in the deployment support there?

44 points by ClaireMaynie 9y ago

notimewaste 9y ago

does this support any other CI like jenkins apart from bitbucket-pipelines?

ClaireMaynie 9y ago
Today, Deployments is only for users of Bitbucket Pipelines. However, there are plans to add API for third party CI tools like Jenkins and others.
bcmoney 9y ago
One idea I've seen broadly recommended if you don't want to run your whole tech stack & all environments (Test & Prod environment servers/DBs) in the cloud, i.e. as a DockerHub container or something, is to instead use WebHooks or CURL requests to call localized Jenkins CI within your private/local network to then kick off final builds/deployments to real environments that way, after the initial build succeeds and possibly even a throwaway environment gets spun up and tests pass in the Cloud. That can be done using either the built-in Jenkins API https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API or "Trigger Builds Remotely" Build Trigger option (which basically uses the same mechanism with your own Job-specific token/key). Nice feature is that BitBucket Pipelines supports "environment variables" to enable securely storing Jenkins API keys or tokens that let you securely tunnel through corporate FW rules and the like: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/environment-variables-in-bitbucket-pipelines-794502608.html https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/environment-varia...

deleted 9y ago

[deleted]

ulinaaron 9y ago

I can't wait to use this. Is there planned support for FTP/SFTP? I only saw deployment plans for container-like services. Right now I have a pipeline script wrote using lftp but I'd prefer first-party support for SFTP deployments.

jeroenderaedt 9y ago
You should be able to deploy using FTP or SFTP with Bitbucket Pipelines already. A guide on how to set up SFTP (including SSH keys) can be found here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/How-do-I-set-up-ssh-public-key-authentication-so-that-I-can-use/qaq-p/171671 https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/How-d...

mariushop 9y ago

Nice move, Atlassian, linking directly to this post from the promo email.

sogen 9y ago
That's why im here :)

andre991 9y ago

TOP!!! When will you provide this feature?

ClaireMaynie 9y ago
This feature is live now for anyone who signs up for early access: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/pipelines-alpha-877358733.html https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/pipelines-alpha-8...

erwinm 9y ago

Will there be support for deployments to a (test) environment per branch?

ClaireMaynie 9y ago
In the early release, it's not possible: the 3 default environments are at the moment just for the repository, not per branch. You can deploy from multiple branches to the same environment though. Can you elaborate on why this would be helpful for you?
- concis10n 9y ago
  Branch-specific test environments would allow regression testing to happen _before_ changes get merged (I've used Travis to do this). I would love to have this kind of test isolation in our CI environment.
- erwinm 9y ago
  I was asking because we build a product that is deployed at customer site, so deployments would not be useful for that. But, we do deploy our own product to test environments for manual testing. (We also have automatic testing, but thats per commit and removed after testing... so not relevant here.) We have the following branches (simplified): master release-4.2.x release-5.0.x release-5.1.x Now, I was thinking to use the deployments feature to track the deployment of the test environment of each branch. So our testers can see the status of their test environment.
mryall 9y ago
You can do this already in Bitbucket Pipelines and your preferred PaaS provider -- just set up a manual step on your branch pipeline to deploy it. We built Deployments to help teams track changes in their _shared_ environments, which is where most of the value for tracking is. Who would want to see a history of deployments for a branch-specific environment? What information would they be looking for?

theconstantium 9y ago

When will you provide this awesome feature?

geoandrew 9y ago

My main pain point with deployment is with servers that are not directly accessible from the Internet. For example, an EC2 instance that sits in a private section of an AWS VPC. Accessing the server is done through a Bastion server/Jumpbox. AWS CodeDeploy is the only solution I've found in this environment and it sucks. Can the new system ssh proxy through a Bastion server?

mryall 9y ago
Yes, you can set up SSH keys to connect to your jumpbox from Bitbucket Pipelines: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-ssh-keys-in-bitbucket-pipelines-847452940.html https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-ssh-keys-in-b... At the moment, direct access to your Amazon resources requires an access key configured via secure variables in Pipelines. We'd consider adding support for IAM roles/key rotation if a lot of people would find it useful.
- natbobc 9y ago
  Would be useful for stuff like; - kubernetes - elastic beanstalk I'm currently using the "custom" section with a plugin I developed to deploy to environments. In the default build it pushes the build to Elastic Beanstalk and then deploys to test. The custom builds merely promote the build for other environments.

nalbion 9y ago

I'd like to see a mechanism to coordinate deployment dependencies - if the front-end and back-end(s) are stored in separate repos it may be necessary for the back-end to be upgraded before deploying the new front-end.

nalbion 9y ago

How are roll-backs performed? Can a roll-back be executed automatically if smoke tests fail?

sheraz 9y ago

Cool feature! I will be pushing this into our pipline scripts this week. I'm pleasently surprised that bitbucket-pipelines has actually worked this well. So well that we have turned off our Jenkins server. Nice work, atlassian!

vikasbirru 9y ago
i con't able to see new future(bit bucket deployments ) in bit bucket i can go for that
seanjregan 9y ago
So did this guy- https://medium.com/@shanecfast/firing-the-butler-migrating-from-jenkins-to-bitbucket-pipelines-3712db5ba0ab https://medium.com/@shanecfast/firing-the-butler-migrating-f...

vikasbirru 9y ago

hi team this is birru you're shared new future in bit-bucket (bit-bucket deployments) but it not visible in bit-bucket account i am searched is there any add-on future there no add-on there is no future in bit how can i go to use deployments future in bitbucket

basilin 9y ago

Seems good

intellix 9y ago

Looks great but imagine there are no plans to release it for Bitbucket Server as with every other feature that comes 2 years later. AKA Abandonware

mryall 9y ago
Bamboo integrates with Bitbucket Server and has great deployment support. In many ways, we’re just catching up on the cloud side. Do you use Bamboo? Anything you’d like to see improved in the deployment support there?