Bitbucket Pipelines: CI/CD built into Bitbucket Cloud

Bitbucket Pipelines is CI/CD built into Bitbucket Cloud, so build, test and deployment workflows run where the code lives. Atlassian describes it as requiring no infrastructure to manage and no plugins to maintain. It is positioned for a single team or for orchestrating software delivery across an entire organisation. A free trial is offered from the product page.

• CI/CD built into Bitbucket Cloud
• Automates builds, tests and deployments
• No infrastructure to manage
• No plugins to manage

Pipelines covers pipeline execution, monitoring and extension. Teams can track pipeline progress, monitor logs and debug issues across the organisation from within Bitbucket. Pipes provide out-of-the-box integrations with third-party testing, security and monitoring tools, or teams can build their own. Hosted runners are available, as are self-managed runners behind a firewall, and both can be used together.

• Pipeline visibility with progress tracking and logs
• Hybrid runners: Atlassian-hosted or your own
• Pipes for third-party integrations
• Agentic pipelines executed via Rovo or Claude
• Automation of routine tasks such as security fixes, documentation updates and flaky tests

Pipelines lets teams define and track multiple deployment environments, including development, staging and production. The version of code running in each environment is visible within Bitbucket. Flo CTO Roman Bugaev is quoted saying it is easier to see what caused an issue because all deployments are visible in the CI/CD pipelines and linked to Jira tickets, which are in turn linked to Confluence, Bitbucket and Slack.

• Multiple environments: dev, staging, production
• Per-environment view of the running code version
• Deployment status shared via Jira and Confluence

Atlassian presents Pipelines as a way to orchestrate CI/CD workflows at an organisational level. Compliant, best-practice workflows can be set centrally and applied everywhere, and company-wide policies, rules and processes can be defined as code and enforced across every repository. Pipeline standards for testing, security and compliance apply to both existing and new projects. Platform teams can design, build and share workflows so that individual development teams spend more time on code.

• Organisation-level workflow standardisation
• Policies as code enforced across repositories
• Dynamic pipelines for platform-level workflow sharing
• Standards for testing, security and compliance

Build and deployment status can be shared with R&D and business stakeholders through Jira, Confluence and the wider Atlassian platform. DORA metrics are accessible through Jira and Compass, and change management can be automated with integrations such as deployment approval workflows in Jira Service Management. Bitbucket itself combines issue tracking, source code, container registries and CI/CD pipelines in one platform, with AI-powered search, code review and pipeline triage across the development lifecycle.

• Status sharing via Jira, Confluence and the Atlassian platform
• DORA metrics in Jira and Compass
• Deployment approval workflows in Jira Service Management
• AI-assisted pipeline triage in Bitbucket

Pipelines is one of the apps bundled in the Atlassian Software Collection, which Atlassian describes as an AI-native SDLC for software teams. The collection also includes Rovo Dev, DX and Bitbucket, and is aimed at measuring and improving productivity, quality and speed. Within the collection, Pipelines covers the CI/CD element: building workflows where the code lives, with AI to help fix broken pipelines. Apps in the collection can also be purchased individually.

• Part of the Software Collection with Rovo Dev, DX and Bitbucket
• Covers the CI/CD layer of the collection
• Available individually as well as in the collection

Pipelines is documented on the Atlassian website at atlassian.com, with its own product page under the Bitbucket features section. The page offers a free trial and links to further detail on agentic pipelines, standards enforcement, Pipes and dynamic pipelines. Atlassian's site is published in several languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Russian and Japanese, with Pipelines listed as part of the Software Collection in each.

• Product page: atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/features/pipelines
• Free trial available from the product page
• Contact sales route via the Software Collection page
• Site available in multiple language editions