Atlassian, maker of Jira and other project automation software, today announced the addition of 12 new features, automation resources and integrations designed to give DevOps teams an edge in their changing industry.

DevOps teams rely heavily on cooperation, coordination and collaboration in order to connect development teams, deployment teams and information technology operations. To make this happen, DevOps teams turn to numerous products that provide support for communication, workflow automation, testing, issue flagging and offload administration so that workers can get to what they do best: Build and support their services and apps.

To enhance these features, Atlassian has announced deeper integrations among Jira Software Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub and GitLab. These integrations will provide developers teams easier, automatic issue tracking and project updates during the design and coding processes.

With a new Your Work dashboard in Bitbucket Cloud, developers can see their assigned Jira issues without the need to switch out of their coding environment. That will allow them to do work without the need to jump among tools and waste time each time an issue is fixed.

DevOps Automation Trigger enhancements. Image: Atlassian

Jira Software Cloud now has enhanced DevOps automation triggers, which allow developers to design complex rules for updating Jira during the coding process. This means that developers can have Jira status to automatically update upon code repository commit – for example when an issue is resolved – or pass the issue onto quality assurance or move it into the inbox of the operations team or test team automatically.

Continuing the vision of letting developers stay focused on code and reduce the need to bounce between tools, Atlassian has added a new Pull Request Experience feature to Bitbucket Cloud. That makes it easier to review code changes with consolidated task lists, integrated Jira issue creation and activity feed filters.

Additionally, Atlassian VS Code integration will allow developers to pull their entire dev pipeline into their code editor. This feature also adds the Jira task list into the development editor from Jira Software Cloud, a complete code review experience, and continuous integration and delivery tracking from Bitbucket Pipelines.

For speeding up integration and delivery, known as the CI/CD pipeline, Atlassian is adding smarter insight production to Bitbucket Cloud with even more integration with Jira.

Code Insights in Bitbucket Cloud brings DevOps scanning, testing and analysis tools directly into the code review process. They include Mabl for test automation and Sentry for automated monitoring. DevSecOps also gets some attention with integration with Snyk, a code scanner that can highlight potential security issues. All of these integrations also come with an open application programming interface, allowing developers to extend Bitbucket Cloud to in-house tools.

Opsgenie and Bitbucket Incident Investigation dashboard. Image: Atlassian

Finally, Atlassian acknowledges that DevOps teams suffer from something known as “notification fatigue.” That’s when a developer, tester or IT specialist is working on a project but gets inundated with constant messages from the team or automation software citing new issues. Communication may be key, but constant, especially trivial interruptions can take their toll.

To combat that problem, Jira now has an integration for Opsgenie and Bitbucket Cloud that centralizes all alerts and provides intelligent filters to help reduce noise and surface actually important messages and alerts for those who need to see them. Opsgenie hooks into an Incident Investigation Dashboard that provides an at-a-glance overview for teams to see what needs attention and provides a clear history of what happened right before the noted incident.

All of these new features are rolling out today and Atlassian is currently updating its resources hub for developers, DevOps specialists and others.

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