GitHub Action to run Renovate self-hosted.

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Badge	Description	Service
	Code style	Prettier
	Commit style	Conventional Commits
	Dependencies	Renovate
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	Example	GitHub Actions

Configuration file to configure Renovate. The configurations that can be done in this file consists of two parts, as listed below. Refer to the links to the Renovate Docs for all options and see the example/config.js for an example configuration.

1. Self-Hosted Configuration Options
2. Configuration Options

The branchPrefix option is important to configure and should be configured to a value other than the default to prevent interference with e.g. the Renovate GitHub App.

Generate a personal access token, with the repo:public_repo scope for only public repositories or the repo scope for public and private repositories, and add it to Secrets (repository settings) as RENOVATE_TOKEN. You can also create a token without a specific scope, which gives read-only access to public repositories, for testing. This token is only used by Renovate, see the token configuration, and gives it access to the repositories. The name of the secret can be anything as long as it matches the argument given to the token option.

Note that the GITHUB_TOKEN secret can't be used for authenticating Renovate.

This example uses a personal access token and will run every 15 minutes. The personal access token is configured as a GitHub secret named RENOVATE_TOKEN. This example uses the example/config.js file as configuration. You can also see a live example of this action in my github-renovate repository, which also includes a more advanced configuration for updating GitHub Action workflows.

name: Renovate
on:
  schedule:
    # The "*" (#42, asterisk) character has special semantics in YAML, so this
    # string has to be quoted.
    - cron: '0/15 * * * *'
jobs:
  renovate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/[email protected]
      - name: Self-hosted Renovate
        uses: vidavidorra/[email protected]
        with:
          configurationFile: example/config.js
          token: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 license.

Copyright © 2020 Jeroen de Bruijn