Bamboo Yaml Specs

Bill Wang

Problems in current Bamboo build pipelines

A lot of manual tasks
Hard to trace pipeline changes
Too complex

New feature after v6.3.x

Bamboo Yaml Specs

Manage build plan within a pipeline file

New features in Bamboo

New feature after bamboo v6.3.x
Bamboo Yaml Specs
Build plans in source version control
Automatically generate build plans
Manage build pipelines within a pipeline file
The Twelve Factors (First factor: Codebase)

How to implement it?

Enable yaml specs in linked repository
Add in "Bamboo Specs repositories" for your project
Add bamboo-specs/bamboo.yml or bamboo-specs/bamboo.yaml in your repo
Commit your changes.

Sample of bamboo.yml

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project:
  key: O2A2LS
  plan:
    key: O2A2LSDOCKERNODE
    name: o2a2ls-docker-node

stages:
  - jobs:
      - scripts:
          - '#!/bin/bash'
          - echo 'Jetpack scan'
          - make jetpack_scan
        requirements:
          - os
  - jobs:
      - scripts:
          - '#!/bin/bash'
          - echo 'build image asq/node:7'
          - VERSION="7.10.1" make release
        requirements:
          - os

Limits

Bamboo YAML Specs is a very simple feature, which don't cover most traditional features in Bamboo, such as

Permissions
Variables/Secret variables
Triggers

DEMO & Questions

References:

T he Twelve Factors

Build with Bamboo YAML Specs