How to get started with renovatebot¶
Warning
Our use of renovatebot is in an early stage. Feedback is welcome via the GitLab project.
Renovatebot is an automated process which will raise Merge Requests in your GitLab projects to keep your dependencies fresh. It is very configurable but the default configuration has been designed to fulfil the needs of a typical DevOps project.
This how-to guide covers how to opt in to having renovatebot scan your projects and what to expect.
Optionally, configure CODEOWNERS for your project¶
Renovatebot can auto-assign Merge Requests to people in your project but you need to add a CODEOWNERS file first.
Merge the on-boarding Merge Request¶
All projects should have has an onboarding Merge Request from renovatebot (example) which will configure your project to use the default renovatebot configuration.
Merge this Merge Request to enable renovatebot for your project.
Alternatively, if you can't find the onboarding MR, add the following to renovate.json at the root
of your repository:
{
"$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
"extends": [
"local>uis/devops/renovate-config"
]
}
Summary¶
In this guide you learned how to add your GitLab group to the renovatebot allowlist and to merge the on-boarding Merge Request.