As a Renovate maintainer, the question I answer most often is not “why is Renovate broken?” but “why did Renovate do that with my config?”. The honest answer is usually “because you configured it that way”, and finding out where is the hard part. Every one of these mysteries ends the same way: you pull off the mask, and it was a packageRule all along. The Renovate Config Debugger is my attempt to make that answer visible before Renovate runs. ...
Ever wished that Renovate increased that Chart version number in your Helm chart if the appVersion changes? Or maybe you wanted to bump the version number even though a dependency changed, which is not a direct dependency? Well, it can now! ...
Ever struggled to set up Renovate with Backstage repositories? You are not alone! 🤗 ...
This talk has been presented at OSS 2024 Europe and evolves around how to extract dependency data with Renovate. It includes three ways to get the data: Dependency Dashboards Logs and the new Report feature Further it contains a demo of the Renovate Backstage plugin as well as helpful configuration to set up your Renovate instance up for extraction purposes. Presentation Recording
With the widespread adoption of OpenTelemetry as standard in the Observability ecosystem, the more I see the OpenTelemetry Collector deployed at customers. A nice subproject here is the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB) which allows to easily create your custom distribution of the Collector. Some notable distributions here are: AWS RedHat SumoLogic others can be found here These custom distributions can be used to the minimum size for your specific use case or a custom module written by your own. For example, to implement a complex filter logic or support an internal API. ...
This time I want to share my top strategies to prevent (as much as possible 😅) merging buggy dependencies when using Renovate. The tips can be used for manual merging or auto merging strategies if you already reached the needed maturity. ...
In this blog entry, I would like you to show a new feature of Renovate, which makes it even more flexible when dealing with non-standard dependencies: customDatasources. ...
In this blog, we will go through the config used in the Meetup talk “Renovate: Let’s upgrade your dependency workflow” and I will explain how to implement my favorite features of Renovate. If you do not know what Renovate is, I highly recommend going through the slides. The basis First we add a JSON schema reference with the $schema key, which allows editors to fetch the current schema of Renovate config. This enables intellisense and validation in IDEs. ...
An introduction to Renovate why you should automate your dependency workflow, why to use a centralized tool and why you should use Renovate for the task. If you are interested in a break-down of the example, read this Blog entry.