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Bitbucket
Git hosting and CI/CD built for teams using the Atlassian suite.
Free-Limited
Git Hosting CI/CD
Overview
Bitbucket is Atlassian's Git-based source code repository hosting service built for teams, tightly integrated with Jira and Trello.
Key Features
- Git repository hosting with unlimited private repos
- Bitbucket Pipelines: built-in CI/CD via bitbucket-pipelines.yml
- Deep Jira integration — link commits and PRs to tickets automatically
- Branch permissions and required merge checks
- Deployment tracking across environments in the pipelines UI
- Available as SaaS or self-hosted (Bitbucket Data Center)
Real-World Workflows
Jira-linked development workflow
- 1Create a feature branch from a Jira issue — branch is auto-linked to the ticket
- 2Raise a pull request; Jira ticket transitions to 'In Review' automatically
- 3Bitbucket Pipelines runs tests and reports the result on the PR
- 4On merge, Jira ticket moves to 'Done' and deployment is tracked in Bitbucket
Getting Started
# Clone a Bitbucket repo: git clone https://bitbucket.org/myworkspace/myrepo.git # Add pipelines config: touch bitbucket-pipelines.yml
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