The article explores the integration of Bitbucket with various continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, detailing how to connect Bitbucket with Jenkins and AWS Developer Tools to create and configure build pipelines. It highlights the use of Jenkins, an open-source build server, for customized build environments, and AWS CodeBuild for cloud-based testing, alongside Bitbucket's native CI/CD service, Bitbucket Pipelines, which offers a streamlined, all-in-one solution. Cost considerations for each platform are discussed, emphasizing the balance between build performance and expenses. Additionally, the article introduces Earthly, an open-source project designed to simplify builds and ensure consistency across different environments, offering a potential solution to common troubleshooting challenges in CI pipelines. The author, Ben Force, is a freelance software engineer with a long history in programming, and he shares more insights on his personal blog.