Pipelines live directly within Bitbucket Cloud, with builds and status checks visible alongside commits and pull requests.
Each step runs in a Docker container, enabling reproducible environments and easy support for many language toolchains.
Reusable pipes and official templates simplify common tasks, from Docker builds to cloud deployments, without complex scripting.
Pipelines integrates with Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian tools so teams can trace work items through code and deployments.
Deployment environments and status views show where each commit is running, improving release transparency.
Small teams add Pipelines configs to run unit tests and basic builds for Bitbucket Cloud repos without extra tools.
Changes linked to Jira issues flow through Pipelines to staging and production, with status visible back in Jira.
Teams build images and deploy to Kubernetes or cloud container platforms directly from Pipelines steps.
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Buildkite is a hybrid CI/CD platform that runs pipelines in your own infrastructure while providing a hosted control plane and web UI. Instead of sending code to a third-party cloud runner, organizations install lightweight Buildkite agents on their own machinesāon-premises, in private clouds, or in Kubernetes clusters. Pipelines are defined as YAML steps and can run any toolchain or container, making Buildkite popular among teams with security, compliance, or performance needs that favor in-house runners. With features like distributed pipelines, parallel steps, analytics, and integrations with Git providers and chat tools, Buildkite gives DevOps and platform teams fine-grained control over CI/CD execution without building a custom orchestration system from scratch.
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