Is it possible to combine deployment and variables in a custom pipeline?

[Matthias Maier]

Hi,

I would like to combine "deployment: Dev" or "deployment: Test" together with variables for my custom pipeline.

The purpose is that I want to trigger the deployment of a specific release version either to our Dev environment or Test environment.

Therefore I need a variable "releaseVersion" and also the ability to define different environments by using the "deployment: Dev" or "deployment: Test".

In fact I would like to combine:
https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/configure-bitbucket-pipelinesyml/#deployment
and
https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/configure-bitbucket-pipelinesyml/#variables

Both can be used within a custom pipeline but somehow not in combination.

Following is currently working:

pipelines:
  custom:
    deploy-dev-reset:
      - step:
          <<: *deploy-reset
          deployment: Dev
      - step: *reset-dev-elastic-search

    deploy-test-reset:
      - step:
          <<: *deploy-reset
          deployment: Test

But if I try to add variables to the custom pipline it is not working anymore:

pipelines:
  custom:

    deploy-dev-reset:
      - variables:
        - name: releaseVersion
      name: Deploy Dev Env
      - step:
          <<: *deploy-reset
          deployment: Dev
      - step: *reset-dev-elastic-search

    deploy-test-reset:
      - variables:
        - name: releaseVersion
      name: Deploy Test Env
      - step:
          <<: *deploy-reset
          deployment: Test

[Matthias Maier · Accepted solution]

I could solve this issue. In general it is possible to combine "deployment" and "variables" within a custom pipeline.

Example:

pipelines:
  custom:

    deploy-dev-reset:
      - variables:
        - name: releaseVersion
          default: "snapshot"
      - step:
          <<: *deploy-reset
          deployment: Dev
      - step: *reset-dev-elastic-search

    deploy-test-reset:
      - variables:
        - name: releaseVersion
          default: "0.1.0"
      - step:
          <<: *deploy-reset
          deployment: Test

 The actual root cause of the issue was something else. It was just an "echo" which contained a ":"

Example (which causes an error):

- echo "Re-install everything using image tag: $releaseVersion"

to use ":" within a script it needs to be escaped by using a ">"

- >
  echo "Re-install everything using image tag: $releaseVersion"