Bitbucket Project Connector

Feedback from DS PM

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Some of these items are on our radar (branch not showing up when setting up connection details), so I’ll keep you updated on their statuses. Do some of these issues you identified have support tickets open or is everything you shared net new?

What I realized in the process overview is that WR is looking to apply Git here similar to how Git would be used in a code-based implementation. Unfortunately, this won’t translate directly with how Git will work with DataStage. While leveraging a pull request to identify differences before merging makes sense when using code, the pull request in comparing assets will not necessarily be useful and can lead to errors after merging. I’m interested in how WR is going to use Git in relation to CI/CD and promoting up between dev and prod environments. Would you be open to explaining more on a call?

Feedback from DS Dev

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DataStage cannot follow the same patterns of Git integration as the platform (project-level), given that we guide our clients to use Trunk Based Development instead of feature-based branching. It avoids unnecessary branching and merging, and maximizes change throughput, therefore allowing clients to truly gain the benefits of CI/CD for ETL/ELT development.

The approach for Git integration that is specifically for DataStage addresses DataStage specific use cases which cannot be resolved with the project-level based Git integration you call out (leveraged by other services).

We will review the BitBucket data center requirement, however we will not be able to remove the Git integration for DataStage given that this is the path for our clients to access trunk based development.

We checked the situation yesterday together with IBM. As we see in the latest version of cloud pack for data. There is a very confusing situation arround git and git integration.

1) git on project level 

• I can confirm, that the git project integration is working with bitbucket
• BUT it is not enough for datastage - This is not good, as we expected to have everything (all asset types) inside of a project to be stored in this git repository.

2) git on datastage level

• Inside datastage is a tab called Git Integration, where it is possible to connect to a git server 
• Here is no option for bitbucket (bitbucket datacenter, NOT bitbucket cloud)
• Available options are GitHub and GitLab

3) What we need

• We need the bitbucket datacenter option (see 2)
• We would like to have the git integration inside datastage removed and only have a integration on project level

Thanks Peter

Hi Peter.
Which version of bitbucket are you working with ? bitbucket and bitbucket Enterprise are supported on projects.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.1.x?topic=project-accessing-git-repository

Sorry for the unspecific idea.

What we need is git (bitbucket) integration for datastage projects.

https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/dstage/dsnav/topics/creating-managing-assets.html?context=cpdaas#creating-managing-assets__title__4

I know that in version 5.1 this should have been added, but there is something missing. I will check this and let you know what exactly is missing.

Thanks Peter

Hi Peter, can you confirm which git integration you are using. Bitbucket is a supported remote git repository.