Item: Bitbucket
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bitbucket is currently our primary version control solution. It is being used as a primary system for all code that requires versioning.

Pros and Cons

For what it is, Bitbucket works very well.
Ease of use - Navigating the UI is pretty seamless and straightforward.
Plugins - Bitbucket has a wide array of plugins available that allow pretty easy integrations with other tools and systems.

Reliability - In my experience, bitbucket is not the most reliable solution available.
Restoring - Plugins seem to be all or nothing when restoring. This makes knowing which things are enabled not the greatest experience when an event happens and you must restore. Several days of “well, we noticed this feature was missing” is pretty painful in the way of end-user experience.
Permissions - In many ways, setting specific permissions for projects and repositories are not as intuitive as other solutions available.

From a cost standpoint, Bitbucket is the winner if you fall outside of the ability to use the GitHub and Gitlab free tiers. Both of those solutions have their own merits, but from a cost saving perspective Bitbucket is more than likely going to be the most effective option.

Support Rating

I do not have specific experience with the support for Bitbucket.

Key Insights

Do you think Bitbucket delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Bitbucket's feature set?

Yes

Did Bitbucket live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Bitbucket go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Bitbucket again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Gitlab, GitHub, Chef, Jenkins

Likelihood to Recommend

Bitbucket is your run of the mill version control system. If you are looking for a solution that also has powerful pipelining capabilities, this probably isn’t for you. If you are looking for a basic system you can use to implement version control and a place to store your code, Bitbucket is a pretty good solution. The Bitbucket server UI is very different than the Bitbucket cloud UI so your mileage may vary on usability, but either option is pretty easy to implement and use.

Usability Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar	None

Difficult Tasks

Project Permissions vs Repo Permissions vs Branch Permissions

Usability

Bitbucket, overall, is pretty simple to navigate and use without much training or overhead.

A solid and cost-effective option

Overall Satisfaction with Bitbucket