Introduction to Bitbucket
Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira. It simplifies the toolchain by integrating code and CI/CD on a single platform, covering the entire software development lifecycle.
Key Features:
- CI/CD Integration: Streamlines continuous integration and deployment processes.
- Cloud Security: Ensures secure code management and collaboration.
- DevSecOps: Integrates security practices into the DevOps process.
- Code Review: Facilitates peer reviews to maintain code quality.
- Jira Integrations: Seamlessly connects with Jira for issue tracking and project management.
- AI-Powered Features: Includes AI tools for pull request descriptions and generative editing.
- Merge Checks: Enforces quality checks before merging code.
- Security Monitoring: Monitors for security vulnerabilities in code.
- Granular Permissions: Allows detailed access control for users.
Use Cases:
- Managing code repositories and version control.
- Automating CI/CD pipelines for software deployments.
- Conducting code reviews to ensure code quality.
- Integrating with Jira for effective issue tracking.
- Enforcing compliance and code quality policies.
- Monitoring and addressing security vulnerabilities.
- Orchestrating CI/CD workflows at a platform level.
- Simplifying software navigation with developer portals.
- Migrating code and users from Bitbucket Server/Data Center to Cloud.

