How to Automate Dependency Updates with the Renovate@Roche Bot
summary
Roche claims a self‑hosted Renovate deployment (the free Renovate by Mend IO Docker image) that automates updates for more than 500 projects on GitLab, scanning on a schedule (every two hours) with ~12 parallel jobs. Configuration lives in config.js plus per‑repo renovate.json and a repositories.json list, and a variable named GitHub com token fetches release notes. Renovate opens MR per dependency, can auto‑merge on green CI, and updates Python, Docker images, CI files, and pre‑commit hooks.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Automating dependency updates
- 3:54What is Renovate
- 7:07Renovate with Docker & GitLab
- 11:20Self-hosted GitLab config
- 15:54First Renovate merge request
- 21:38Custom config per project
- 26:18Merge requests & auto-merging
- 31:56Failed updates & ignored versions
- 34:00Renovate community tips
- 37:11Key takeaways
- 42:33Final demo & closing
- 42:53Q&A
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