Configuring pipeline options

This recipe will show you the general structure of the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file and the options for general configuration. We created the file that describes the pipeline to execute (bitbucket-pipelines.yml) in Chapter 5. Let’s look at the configuration found in bitbucket-pipelines.yml now.

A sample of the possible configurations and the general structure of the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file is detailed in the following code snippet:

options:
  Global options are here (not required – this section may be absent)
clone:
  Configurations for Git clone behavior go here
definitions:
  Cache and service container definitions here
image:
  Docker image options are here (Chapter 9)
pipeline:
  Pipeline start options are here
    parallel:
      Parallel step options go here
    stage:
      ...