What is Bitbucket?
5 min
Beginner
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Explain what Bitbucket is and how it helps teams
- Describe how Bitbucket is integrated with Jira and AI
- Explain what you can do with Bitbucket Pipelines
Bitbucket helps you manage your source code
Bitbucket is Atlassian’s cloud-based Git repository platform that enables software teams to securely manage and deploy code.
With seamless integration to Jira, Bitbucket automatically links code changes and development progress to work items. It can use AI to automatically generate pull request descriptions from your code changes, giving reviewers the context they need without you having to write it manually.
Together, these features streamline collaboration and provide end-to-end visibility from code changes to project tracking.
👇 Here’s what Bitbucket can look like for you with its integration with Jira.
How your team can use Bitbucket
Bitbucket makes it easy for your team to collaborate with features like intuitive branching and pull request workflows. This enables multiple developers to work together efficiently on the same codebase, while maintaining clear communication.
Your team can connect Bitbucket to market-leading partner tools and build custom integrations to meet the exact needs of your organization.
👉 For example: A development team tracks bugs and features in Jira, creates branches in Bitbucket from Jira work items, collaborates via pull requests, and uses Bitbucket Pipelines to test and deploy automatically. Compass manages alerts and on-call management, while Slack keeps the team synced with notifications and discussions.
Visit this page to learn more about all the tools you can integrate with Bitbucket.
How you can use Bitbucket
Bitbucket users can:
- Store and manage Git repositories: Bitbucket provides a secure, cloud-based space to host your code, making it easy to collaborate with others on projects.
- Track changes to code: Every change to your codebase is tracked, allowing you to review history and revert if needed.
- Create branches for features or bug fixes: Developers can work on new features or fixes in isolated branches, then merge them back into the main codebase.
- Review and merge code changes: Bitbucket supports pull requests, enabling team members to discuss and approve code before it’s merged.
- Automate build and deployment: With Bitbucket Pipelines, you can automate your build, test, and deploy processes directly within Bitbucket.
How AI helps in Bitbucket
AI is built into Bitbucket to help reduce some of the routine work involved in managing code.
- Pull request descriptions: When you open a pull request, AI can generate a description based on your code changes, or improve the clarity of one you've already written, so reviewers always have the context they need.
- Summarize code changes: AI can help reviewers quickly understand what a pull request does by summarizing the key changes, making code reviews faster and more focused.
- Code review assistance: Rovo Dev takes a first pass at your code changes before your teammates review, surfacing potential issues in-line so human reviewers can focus their attention where it counts.
- Build failure summaries: When a pipeline build fails, AI reads the logs and produces a plain-language summary of what went wrong and how to address it, so you can diagnose and fix issues faster without manually parsing complex log output.
👉 For example: A developer finishes a bug fix and creates a pull request. Instead of writing the description from scratch, they use AI to generate a pull request draft, then refine it before requesting a review, cutting the time spent on documentation and keeping the team moving.
Explore Bitbucket Pipelines
Bitbucket Pipelines is an integrated CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment) service built into Bitbucket. It allows you to automate your processes directly from your Bitbucket repository, without needing to set up your own CI/CD infrastructure.
Bitbucket Pipelines features include:
- Built-in templates
- Scale on demand
- Support on all platforms
- Smarter CI/CD
- Standardized governance
- AI-generated build failure summaries and fix suggestions
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