Bamboo 4.4 : Creating a new plan

This page describes how to create a completely new plan

For other ways to create a plan see:

Step 1. Create the plan

When you create a new plan, you can define everything about your build process, including what gets built, how the plan's build is triggered and what jobs are executed.

To create a new plan, complete the following sections:

  1. Click Create Plan in the top menu bar, and then click Create a New Plan.
  2. Complete the following sections:

    Plan DetailsSelect either an existing project to which this new plan will belong, or New Project.
    Source RepositoriesSee the following for details:
    Trigger
    Choose how Bamboo should trigger builds. See Triggering builds.

Step 2. Configure tasks for the plan

When a new plan is created, a default job is also created as part of the plan. You need to configure one or more tasks for the default job. Tasks are the 'units of work' for a plan.  You can always add more tasks to the default job after the plan is created, as well as create new jobs.

  1. On the 'Configure Tasks' screen, click Add Task to add a new task to the new plan.
  2. Click the desired task type in the 'Task Types' dialog.
  3. Fill out the details for the task. The fields and options will be different depending on the executable that you chose. See the following documentation for specific instructions on each executable:
  4. In the 'Enable this plan' section, choose whether or not to enable this plan. Enabling the plan instructs Bamboo to commence executing builds of the plan based on the plan's trigger configuration (defined above). To enable this plan, select the Yes please! check box.
  5. Click Create. Bamboo will automatically run an initial build for your new plan. When you next return to the Dashboard, your new plan (and new project, if applicable) will be displayed on the All Plans tab.

If you wish to configure more plan options, please refer to Editing a plan's configuration.

Screenshots: Creating a new plan - plan configuration and job configuration (click to view gallery)

Notes

  • You can configure Bamboo to automatically start an initial build for a new plan, irrespective of the trigger configuration. To do this, add the fire.initial.build.for.manual.strategy to your bamboo.cfg.xml file as described in Configuring system properties.

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