Bitbucket is a Git-based code hosting and collaboration solution from Atlassian, built for professional teams to manage and collaborate on source code throughout the entire software development lifecycle. It is tightly integrated with the Atlassian platform, including Jira, to create a seamless developer workflow from planning to production.
Bitbucket’s main features emphasize simplification, speed, and security. It offers Git Code Hosting for version control, simplifying the toolchain by putting code and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) on one platform. Its built-in CI/CD tool, Bitbucket Pipelines, allows teams to create powerful, automated workflows for testing and deployment directly from the repository, with options to connect to on-premise tools like Jenkins or Bamboo. The platform provides comprehensive Code Review features, enabling teams to enforce code quality policies with standard or custom merge checks, easily review large code changes, and open linked Jira issues right from the pull request screen. Collaboration is boosted by best-in-class Jira integration, allowing work updates to be shared across teams and Jira issue statuses to update automatically when issue keys are included in code commits. Additionally, Bitbucket uses Atlassian AI (Rovo) features, exclusively available in Bitbucket Premium, to accelerate velocity with capabilities like automatically generating pull request descriptions based on code changes and generative AI editing to enhance writing clarity. Security is enforced through continuous monitoring and fixing vulnerabilities, native security capabilities, and granular access and usage permissions at the workspace, project, or repository level.
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