Keep Batect and your configuration up-to-date automatically with Renovate

[charleskorn]

tl;dr: Renovate now supports Batect, which means it can automatically send you PRs to update Batect itself as well as any images or bundles you reference in your configuration files.

Keeping dependencies and tools up-to-date is a necessary but tedious task for any codebase. Tools like Dependabot and Renovate help to automate this process by scanning your repository for dependencies, identifying which ones are out of date and then sending you PRs to update them.

I'm pleased to announce that Renovate has accepted a series of PRs that add support for Batect 🎉

Read more on the blog.

[sschuberth]

@charleskorn, could you please also explain how to disable the Renovate check for Batect at https://batect.dev/docs/using-batect-with/tools/renovate/? I tried

   "extends": [
     "batect:disable"
   ],

but that does not work (Renovate complains about invalid syntax).

[sschuberth]

That is, I do want to get upgrades to Batect / the wrapper itself, but I do not want to get upgrades to Docker base image I use in batect.yml files.

[sschuberth]

BTW, I used batect:disable because docker:disable works for Dockerfiles. But I guess the part before ":" is supposed to be a "programming lanugage" and not a "manager", and the "docker" progrgamming language maps to the managers ansible, docker-compose, dockerfile, droneci, gitlabci, kubernetes, woodpecker. Which makes me think, should batect be part of that list?

[sschuberth]

Anyway, it's pretty clear now that "batect" as a manager can be disabled via

{
  "batect": {
    "enabled": false
  }
}

[charleskorn]

This is probably a question best asked in https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions.

As far as I'm aware, extends refers to presets, and I believe presets are created completely separately to the managers themselves. It looks like the docker:disable preset was created specifically.

Anyway, it's pretty clear now that "batect" as a manager can be disabled via

{
  "batect": {
    "enabled": false
  }
}

That looks right to me based on my experience with Renovate.

[sschuberth]

extends refers to presets

Yes, right, that's what I learned by now, too. It's about presets, not programming languages.