Getting started with Dynamic Pipelines

[plussier]

Hi Everyone,

I'm starting to look into Dynamic Pipelines and I'm really intrigued by what I might be able to do with them. However, I'm having a bit of a tough time getting started. The documentation I've found seems rather non-existent as to how to design and structure providers, or even give adequate use-cases, and I'm really hoping I've missed something.  But so far, the best I've found is this YouTube! video by Edmund Munday and this wiki page. 

Is there some other technical "Getting Started" or Intro type documentation beyond these (I've worked through the tutorial, but that barely scratches the surface). 

For example, how does one use labels?  The only reference to a labels section existing in a bitbucket-pipelines.yml file that I've found is in the Bitbucket Dynamic Pipelines Provider Reference wiki.  I would have thought there would be more in-depth documentation somewhere in the Bitbucket Pipelines configuration reference but that wiki makes no mention of a labels section, how to use it, or even that it exists.

I'd love to start using dynamic pipelines for things, if someone can just point me to some well written, comprehensive documentation on them.

Thanks!

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi @plussier,

There is a step-by-step tutorial of a sample app on this page:

• https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/orchestrate-your-builds-using-dynamic-pipelines/

One of my colleagues has posted several community articles with sample apps:

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Forge-for-Bitbucket-Cloud/Share-a-step-across-pipelines-Dynamic-Pipelines/ba-p/2712403
  
  
• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Forge-for-Bitbucket-Cloud/Workspace-repository-and-environment-variables-for-image-pipe/ba-p/2852358
  
  
• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Forge-for-Bitbucket-Cloud/Instantly-Access-and-Share-Repository-Size-Data-Across-All/ba-p/2877076
  
  
• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Forge-for-Bitbucket-Cloud/Access-All-Pull-Requests-Across-Bitbucket-Repositories/ba-p/2896064

There is a link to the source code of each app in the community articles.

I haven't been involved with dynamic pipelines development so I can't answer specific questions and perhaps there are some resources I am missing. However, we do have a community group specifically for Forge for Bitbucket Cloud, so you can reach out there for all things related to dynamic pipelines:

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Forge-for-Bitbucket-Cloud/gh-p/bitbucket-cloud-forge

Kind regards,
Theodora

[plussier]

@Theodora Boudale Thank you so much, I really appreciate this list of resources!

I saw the Forge for Bitbucket group, but didn't equate it with "dynamic pipelines" for some reason.

I will go through all of the above, and report back :)

Thanks again, I'm rather excited to see how these can impact our automation!

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Paul

[Theodora Boudale]

You're very welcome, Paul! It's good to hear you're excited about this!