What is Bitbucket?
Bitbucket is Atlassian's platform for Git source code and CI/CD. Bitbucket Cloud is a SaaS service built on the Atlassian Cloud platform, and Atlassian also sells Data Center, a self-managed product offering for customers with strict regulatory or security requirements. The platform combines issue tracking, source code, container registries and CI/CD pipelines, with customizable merge checks to enforce code quality and compliance policies.
Bitbucket connects code to Jira. Atlassian says Jira and Bitbucket are linked to show details and where a change is in production, which makes changes traceable. Pipelines are configured in a bitbucket-pipelines.yml file, and runners can be configured in that file.
The Free plan is free forever for up to 5 users, with unlimited public and private repositories. Standard is listed at $3.65 per user per month for growing teams that collaborate on code and CI/CD. Premium is listed at $8 per user per month and adds granular admin controls, security and auditing capabilities. Extra build minutes and Git LFS storage can be bought, for example 1,000 more minutes or 100 GB for $10 a month.
Key capabilities
- Git hosting Unlimited public and private repositories, free for up to 5 users.
- Pipelines CI/CD configured in bitbucket-pipelines.yml.
- Merge checks Customizable checks to enforce code quality and compliance policies.
- Jira link Code changes tied to Jira work items.
- Premium controls Granular admin controls, security and auditing.
- Add-on usage Extra build minutes and LFS storage can be purchased.
Where Bitbucket fits
- Git repository hosting
- Pull requests and merge checks
- CI/CD with Pipelines and runners
- Issue tracking and Jira integration
- Container registries
- Admin, security and auditing controls on Premium
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