Donovan Brown

I was recently asked via Twitter if you could build from an on-premises Bitbucket server using Visual Studio Team Services.  The answer is yes and this post will show you how.

The only assumption I am making is you already have an on-premises Bitbucket server that is exposed to the internet.  This post is going to focus on establishing a connection to an on-premises Bitbucket server and not the project being built.

1. Log in to Team Services
2. Click the Build hub
3. Click the green plus 
4. Select the Empty template
5. Click Next
6. Select Remote Git Repository
7. Check the box for Continuous integration
8. Click Create

With the build created, it is now time to connect Bitbucket to Team Services.

1. Click the Repository tab
2. Click Manage next to Connection
3. Click New Service Endpoint
4. Select External Git
   

   Field	Value
   Connection Name	Bitbucket
   Server URL	http://{Bitbucket Server}:{Port}/scm/{Project}/{Repo}.git
   User Name	[Username with permissions to repo]
   Password/Token Key	[Password for user]

5. Close tab
6. Click Refresh button next to Manage
   

   Field	Value
   Repository type	External Git
   Connection	Bitbucket
   Repository name	[Leave empty, the system will fill it in]
   Default branch	[Your desired branch]
   Clean	[Select true or false]
   Checkout submodules	[Check if you have submodules]

7. Click Save
8. Give your build a name
9. Click OK
10. Click Queue build…
11. Click OK

As you can see from the screenshot below, Team Services was able to clone the on-premises Bitbucket repository.