Introducing the Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines migration tool (Beta)
With the Bamboo Data Center End of Life (EOL) scheduled for March 28, 2029, many teams are already mapping out their long-term journey to the cloud. While 2029 provides a comfortable runway, we want to make sure we offer the right bridge when you’re ready to migrate.
Moving your critical CI/CD workflows from Bamboo to the cloud shouldn’t feel overwhelming. To make this move smoother, we’ve built the Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines migration tool to take on the hard parts of migration for you. Paired with our comprehensive migration guide, the tool streamlines the entire process from Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines, making it easier, faster, and more efficient.
Why migrating to Bitbucket Pipelines?
Migrating to Bitbucket Pipelines means less time managing infrastructure and more time doing what you love: building incredible software. Bitbucket Pipelines brings a fully managed, cloud-based platform designed around your team’s productivity:
- Zero wait times for your developers: Instant, elastic scaling eliminates the bottlenecks of fixed on-prem build agents. Your builds start when your team needs them.
- Massive reduction in operational overhead: No more time spent maintaining hardware, patching vulnerabilities, or running CI server upgrades.
- Lower costs: We’ve seen teams reduce their total cost of ownership by up to 70% at scale by eliminating on-prem operational overhead.
- Effortless compliance: Organization-level orchestration ensures governance standards are met across every repository, without slowing developers down.
How does the tool work?
The Bamboo migration tool is included as part of the Bitbucket Pipelines Importer, a CLI you can run wherever you work—locally, in CI, or in any environment you operate—to bring the automation you need for running migrations at scale. It converts your Bamboo YAML plans into Bitbucket Pipelines syntax while respecting your unique configurations. Here are the key features supported:
- Pre-migration audit: The
auditcommand scans your Bamboo footprint and generates a readiness report, flagging complexity and unsupported plugins upfront. - Cost Forecast: The
forecastcommand predicts your future CI/CD expenses and recommends the most efficient Bitbucket runner sizes for your workloads. - Migration: The
migratecommand automatically translates the most common Bamboo plan features, drastically reducing manual effort. - Extensibility: The migration tool is designed with flexibility and extensibility in mind, so it can account for Bamboo’s custom and home‑grown plugins. To accommodate this, we’ve released the importer tool as open source, so advanced users can extend it with custom logic and functionality.
Getting started
Ready to start your migration? Here’s how to begin:
- Access the tool: Find the migration tool in our our open-source repository.
- Follow the step-by-step migration guide: We’ve written comprehensive documentation and migrations guide that covers all stages of the migration, offering setup instructions, migration tips, and best practices designed to move your workflows to Bitbucket Pipelines.
Have questions or feedback?
Join the conversation on our Atlassian Community page, review our support docs or reach out to our support team. Your feedback will help shape the next iteration of our Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines migration experience and tooling.