Integrating Jira with Bitbucket Cloud and GitHub

Bitbucket Cloud is Atlassian's cloud-based code repository service. It provides public and private code repositories, with support for both Git and Mercurial. It is a great option for organizations that want to move to DVCS, but do not want to deal with the infrastructure overhead.

In this recipe, we will look at how to integrate our on-premises-hosted Jira with Bitbucket in the cloud.

Getting ready

Since we will be using Bitbucket Cloud in this recipe, you need to have a Bitbucket account (both Git and Mercurial repositories will work). If you do not have one, you can sign up for a free account at https://bitbucket.org.

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