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Bitbucket Valuable Features

VinodKumar9 - PeerSpot reviewer
VinodKumar9
Lead Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The integration with Jira is a feature I really appreciate in Bitbucket because it allows for easy task management integration, which is very beneficial. Bitbucket provides strong Jira integration, which is essential for our client who uses Jira for task management. This integration helps streamline processes and has built-in CI/CD pipelines, private repositories, and provides solid support for managing tasks effectively.

The CI/CD pipeline in Bitbucket streamlines our development process as we need built-in pipelines, which are available and easy to use. Bitbucket maintains code quality through branch permissions that alert you if you are pushing directly and there are branch protections or conflicts. It enforces naming conventions for branches, making it secure and easy to manage.

Security-wise, Bitbucket has good features such as private repositories, access controls, authentication requirements, and secure pull requests, ensuring safety at various levels. The initial setup for Bitbucket is easy as I log in with the company email to access a workspace. Creating repositories follows a straightforward process involving setting permissions and branch creation.

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Rammohan Gudapureddy
Devops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Bitbucket has a very clean UI, especially with the pull request dashboards where we can directly see the source and destination branches and the change, and the diff between the files in a single UI.

The security tools integration is very much easier, as for performing any SecOps activities, you can directly hook the Snyk or some other security tools with Bitbucket, and we have direct compatibility with various SAST tools.

Bitbucket doesn't provide any pipelines directly; we use Bamboo. We just hook the Bitbucket source code with a Bamboo pipeline as one of the jobs, one of the tasks in the pipeline activity.

We have a certain naming convention that we follow for the Bitbucket and Jira integration. If we have to create feature branches or any other branches with the name of a Jira ticket flag, adding the Jira ticket number in the commit message itself will directly sync with Jira, allowing a QA or developer to see the merges or commits from the Jira dashboard without opening the Bitbucket UI.

The branches in Bitbucket are purely a dev choice, and we follow a certain branching strategy including feature branch, bug fix, and other branches. For security's sake, if there is any hard-coded secret committed by the developers, we have the alerting mechanism, so we simply raise a notification and send it to the respective dev's mailbox.

These are most of the user-required features and functionalities available in Bitbucket, making it very user-friendly.

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Christo Louw - PeerSpot reviewer
Christo Louw
Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I find Bitbucket's branching, pull requests, and branch mergers very valuable. It integrates seamlessly with task management tools like Jira, making it all integrated. Bitbucket's integration facilitates builds, deployments, visioning, and team collaboration. It also works well with the CRC department, Bamboo, and Jira for task management and work tracking. These are the main aspects I appreciate.

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Prathamesh DMarathe - PeerSpot reviewer
Prathamesh DMarathe
Senior Software Engineer at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The tool works seamlessly, and for branches with pull requests, we can identify merge conflicts and resolve them in our local environment before pushing, which is helpful.

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Guru Javvadi
System Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable features are the scripts used for migration purposes and to create new repository releases. The branching model in Bitbucket is also a significant aspect, though at present, we primarily use email for code verification and validation rather than a repository model.

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reviewer1941486 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1941486
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

The main functions in Bitbucket that were the most useful for me included mostly some predefined functionalities available.

The way the table has been structured can be easily handled, which is beneficial.

Bitbucket provided benefits including ease of use and a good visual representation of some of the reports, which helped us significantly.

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Sinthusan Thangarajah - PeerSpot reviewer
Sinthusan Thangarajah
Software Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of the most valuable features of Bitbucket is its history tracking. It allows me to track the code from ten years back, which is incredibly useful when trying to understand certain implementations in a project.

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reviewer2539953 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2539953
Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The tool helps us manage different versions of code and branches. I like that Bitbucket is similar to Git but may have some vendor support. It has many of the same features as Git.

One helpful feature is that we can do many things directly in the browser, like creating pull requests or editing code, without needing Git commands. Bitbucket integrates well with other tools like Jira. When we raise a pull request in Bitbucket, it can create a change request in ServiceNow automatically. We first create a Jira ticket and tag its number in Bitbucket.

The solution integrates with DevOps tools like TeamCity, Travis, Jenkins, and Nexus repository. We use a branching model with a master branch and other branches for development and testing. Developers modify code in the dev environment; after testing, we implement it in production.

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Cuneyt-Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Cuneyt-Gurses
Director of Cloud Solution Group at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The platform's most valuable features are its strong support for Git operations and its versatile CI/CD pipeline automation capabilities. 

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PrinceKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
PrinceKumar1
Expert Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The platform integrates with other tools, such as Jenkins, enabling automated workflows for building, testing, and deploying code changes. It triggers the pipeline process, ensuring that builds are generated and deployments are managed efficiently.

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Pradeep Singh
DevOps Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Bitbucket has a pull request-based method, similar to Git's merge request feature. To merge specific changes as part of a DLP, for example, where four or five members work on the same branch. The commits themselves are quite challenging. If those five or six developers are working in parallel, there might be a lot of cases where they face conflicts while merging the code in a static target branch. The pull request feature, here, is very important to port the changes in the target branch simultaneously. This feature is very helpful from a developer standpoint.

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Daniel Drori - PeerSpot reviewer
Daniel Drori
Development Team Lead & Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is you can see the differences between the fresh code and the old code before you merge. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and well-integrated.

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Julian Lewis - PeerSpot reviewer
Julian Lewis
Senior application performance monitoring and alerting specialist at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Bitbucket works fine for what I'm doing. It's slightly different from GitHub, but it's a good tool for storing code. 

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Mohammad Danish Arif - PeerSpot reviewer
Mohammad Danish Arif
Co-Founder - President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Bitbucket is feasible and friendly compared to Visual Studio DevOps on the Microsoft platform. I have Visual Studio DevOps, Bitbucket, and Atlassian, and I found Bitbucket enabled more on a technical level because it grants access to those low-level things you can't access in Visual Studio DevOps, where you need to buy a specific part for that and integrate it with OneDrive first. With Bitbucket, you can easily integrate Visual Studio and use different tools. Also, when it comes to costs for the premium version, Bitbucket is lower than that part, and you still get the same level of access.

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Jaya Krishna Paragati - PeerSpot reviewer
Jaya Krishna Paragati
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The planning model is good, and so is the suite of applications around it. Bitbucket makes it easy to manage ops, integration, and unified login.

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reviewer2227158 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2227158
Staff at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Git is Bitbucket's most valuable feature.

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Binuprasad Madhu - PeerSpot reviewer
Binuprasad Madhu
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

BitBucket is a reliable and user-friendly product. 

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Dan Julius - PeerSpot reviewer
Dan Julius
Technical lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Bitbucket works, and it's reliable 

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Tarun Sukhani - PeerSpot reviewer
Tarun Sukhani
Founder & CTO at a media company with 1-10 employees

The most valuable feature is the bundle itself because we use them all. However, code reviews and the ability to support DevSecOps are very important.

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Syed Fahad Anwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Syed Fahad Anwar
Principal System Developer at a government with 51-200 employees

Bitbucket is a standard source code repository with all the features you would expect. It supports Git and SVN. It's an extensive tool that provides us with merging, branching, and change management capabilities. You can compare the changes with the current and previous versions.

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ElioBonazzi - PeerSpot reviewer
ElioBonazzi
Lead Database Administrator at a government with 10,001+ employees

Bitbucket's best feature is a Git client called SourceTree, which allows you to seamlessly integrate on-premise with on-cloud and mix and match repositories on your own server.

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Quan Vu - PeerSpot reviewer
Quan Vu
Data Governance Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The product's most valuable feature is output backup.

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AwaisOmer - PeerSpot reviewer
AwaisOmer
Developer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The tool's UI is better. 

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André Christófaro
Data & Analytics Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The version control feature for our code and the security aspect is valuable to us. It is also related to automation, DevOps, and our desktop environment.

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Mbaye NDIAYE
DevOps consultant with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is its issue management.

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João Fernandes
Web Developer at a security firm with 11-50 employees

We can watch the newly implemented code. So it's quite nice to organize the teams to see what part of the work is done and what part of the code is already old or new. It is very good for that kind of management.

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Anshul Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Anshul Srivastava
Principal Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

The most valuable thing we have found is the workloads are good in Jira and we are able to control the access.

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Pradeep Ravichandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Pradeep Ravichandran
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Bitbucket is significantly cheaper compared to GitHub and it provides on-premises hosting.

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Nakul Kundaliya - PeerSpot reviewer
Nakul Kundaliya
Technical Lead Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is its capabilities.

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Prabu T
Senior Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Bitbucket's most valuable feature is the web interface, which is useful compared to other tools, has a lot of features, and is intuitive. 

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it_user1657203 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1657203
Quality Assurance Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is easy to use. If I need to check out my latest code or I need to send my local code to the depositories it is simple. Overall it is has been a good experience from my side using this solution.

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reviewer1360146 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1360146
Vice President at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a couple of different tools that allow us to tie source code changes to report bugs. It's integrated with our bug tracking system and also integrated with our requirement tracking system. So we have better facilities. We could integrate these solutions using command line "hooks", but when we do it all manually, it's not likely to happen.

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it_user1316571 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1316571
Automation Practice Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's the code check in and code version controlling.

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reviewer2585973 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2585973
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

It has a nice user experience to review PRs and provides great pipeline features, integrating well with other Atlassian products.

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reviewer1304886 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1304886
Data architect at a media company with 201-500 employees

I haven't gone deep into all of the features of Bitbucket. I use Bitbucket as a basic repository in my company, so I don't use it to deal with the CI/CD pipeline.

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EmadZati
Operational planner at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

One of Bitbucket's notable features is its ability to integrate with other addressing solutions.

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Cuneyt Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Cuneyt Gurses
Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Bitbucket is an integral part of our CI/CD project.

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reviewer1941486 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1941486
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is easy to write code and store it in the central repository. 

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Yantao Zhao - PeerSpot reviewer
Yantao Zhao
Software Integration Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use Bitbucket for Jira, Confluence, and Jenkins and we have an automation pipeline. Whenever the coaching is done in Bitbucket we run an automation pipeline from the build, create installations, and tests all in one pipeline. It is done automatically. 

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it_user1261719 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1261719
Chief Information Officer at a recruiting/HR firm with 11-50 employees

Bitbucket is a standard git implementation with perfectly coordinated screens, it's secure, and we have had no problems with it.

We are satisfied with the user interface.

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it_user1234977 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1234977
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I don't have too much experience with Bitbucket; I use GitHub more often.

It's easy to switch back and forth between Bitbucket and GitHub.

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PederHerborg
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

What I liked the most about this program is that it integrates seamlessly with JIRA, which really adds value to our organization. I also like it as a pull request feature, even though that feature can definitely be improved.

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Javad-Talebi
Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I'm using the private cloud because I don't want to have my source public on the internet. I'm very happy about that solution because it's precisely enough for me and my needs. Being private was very important for me, and working with the product's GUI user interface is a good experience. 

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it_user610590 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user610590
Associate Tech Lead with 501-1,000 employees
  • The whitelisting feature - Except for the white listed IPs nobody can access it.
  • It is on the cloud which, security-wise, is a plus point. 
  • It has several flows that makes it an effective user-review system to help avoid unwanted code. 
  • It also has different levels of security, different levels of encryption.
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Moses Biketi
Software Engineer at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

What I like best about Bitbucket is that you can use it for deployment, primarily if your IP addresses do not work well with your deployment scripts. You can use the tool to whitelist IP addresses during deployment.

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reviewer1198131 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1198131
C.T.O at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

We like that it can be integrated with Jira.

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January 2026
Learn what your peers think about Bitbucket. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
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