Getting started with Bamboo

Atlassian Bamboo is a continuous integration (CI) and deployment server. Bamboo assists software development teams by providing:

• automated building and testing of software source-code status.
• updates on successful and failed builds.
• reporting tools for statistical analysis.

Please see the following pages for information about getting started with Bamboo: 

• Bamboo best practice - system requirements

• Understanding the Bamboo CI Server - a conceptual overview of using Bamboo for continuous integration (CI). 

1. Install and start Bamboo  

See one of:

• Installing Bamboo on Linux
• Installing Bamboo on Mac OS X
• Installing Bamboo on Windows

Once it's started, you can access Bamboo in your browser at http://localhost:8085/.

2. Set up notifications

Bamboo can send build result notifications using:

• HipChat - see Integrating Bamboo with HipChat
• Email - see Configuring Bamboo to send SMTP Email
• Other services - see Notifications

3. Get building with Bamboo

Bamboo has the concept of a 'plan' to look after the configuration for a build. So, to run your first build, you create and run a plan:

• Getting started with Java and Bamboo -  a guide to setting up a simple CI workflow for Java code.
• Getting started with .NET and Bamboo -  a guide to setting up a simple CI workflow on Windows.