DevOps / Bamboo: Continuous Integration & Deployment Interview Questions
Explain the execution flow of a Bamboo build plan?
A single run of a plan follows a fixed path from trigger to result, moving stage by stage and, within each stage, job by job in parallel.
flowchart TD
A[Trigger: push, schedule, or manual] --> B[Stage 1: Build]
B --> C[Job: Checkout code]
C --> D[Job: Compile / package]
D --> E{Stage 1 passed?}
E -- No --> F[Plan marked failed, stop]
E -- Yes --> G[Stage 2: Test]
G --> H[Parallel jobs: unit, integration tests]
H --> I{Stage 2 passed?}
I -- No --> F
I -- Yes --> J[Stage 3: Publish artifact]
J --> K[Notifications sent, status shown in Jira/Bitbucket]
The key mechanics to call out in an interview: stages are strict sequential gates, jobs inside a stage parallelize across agents, and a failure at any stage halts the default flow rather than letting later stages run against a broken build.
In a Bamboo plan's execution flow, what happens between stages?
After a plan's final stage completes, what typically happens?
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