Scheduled pipelines

Scheduled pipelines allow you to run a pipeline at hourly, daily or weekly intervals.

  • Scheduled pipelines run in addition to any builds triggered by commits, or triggered manually.
  • You can create a schedule for any pipeline defined in your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file.
  • If you make a custom pipeline it will only run when scheduled or manually triggered.

1. Create a pipeline

Here's a simple example showing how you would define a custom pipeline in the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file:

pipelines:
  custom: # defines that this can only be triggered manually or by a schedule
    staging: # The name that is displayed in the list in the Bitbucket Cloud GUI
      - step:
          script:
            - echo "Scheduled builds in Pipelines are awesome!"

Read more about custom pipelines.

2. Create a schedule

Create a schedule for your pipeline as follows:

  1. Go to the repository in Bitbucket.
  2. Click Pipelines then Schedules (at the top right), and then click New schedule.
  3. Choose the Branch and Pipeline that you want to schedule:
    • The schedule will run the HEAD commit of the branch.
    • The pipeline must be defined in the bitbucket-pipelines.yml on the branch you selected.  
  4. Set the Schedule:
    • Select how often you would like the pipeline to run (hourly, daily or weekly)
    • Select the time (in your local time). However, your pipeline will be scheduled in UTC time (unaffected by daylight savings hours)
    • The scheduled pipeline can run at any time in the selected time period. This is to distribute all schedules in Pipelines triggering across the hour.

Remove a schedule

Go to Pipelines > Schedules (at the top right) to see all the schedules for a repository.

  • Remove a schedule by using the 'trash' icon at the right of the schedule.
  • Note that schedules created using the API are displayed as a Cron expression (such as 0 10 15 * *).
Last modified on Oct 4, 2018

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