In this chapter, we looked at Bamboo and what it can do. We used an application link to integrate Jira with Bamboo, so both applications can share information with each other; for example, letting you run build plans from inside Jira. We also looked into Bamboo when setting up a deployment plan, so you can deploy project artifacts you have released and built.

There are many more things you will find you can do with Jira and Bamboo integrated together; for example, you will start seeing build results flowing through automatically into Jira's activity stream on the dashboard, so everyone can be made aware if a build fails. Your build engineers can also view Jira's issue information from inside Bamboo builds, so they can easily pinpoint the cause of build plan failures.