Renovate

Minimal setup as a POC.

Token setup

For renovate to access repositories public and private, a Github token is needed.

Generate a token (assuming you are using GitHub in this guide) at https://github.com/settings/tokens

Windows

1. Use your token as an environment variable:

   $env:GITHUB_TOKEN="<your-token>"
   # verify:
   echo $env:GITHUB_TOKEN

2. Confirm the validity of the token by running:

   $headers = @{
       "Authorization" = "token $env:GITHUB_TOKEN"
   }
   Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://api.github.com/user" -Headers $headers

Linux (Ubuntu)

1. Use your token as an environment variable:

   export GITHUB_TOKEN="<your-token>"

   Or add it to your .bashrc/.zshrc:

   echo 'export GITHUB_TOKEN="<your-token>"' >> ~/.zshrc # or ~/.bashrc
   source ~/.zshrc

2. Confirm the validity of the token by running:

   curl -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/user

Install renovate

Windows

1. Ensure nodejs and npm are installed

2. Install nvm from https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/releases (you may need to restart after install)

3. Install nodejs:

   nvm install node
   nvm install latest
   nvm use latest

4. Install renovate: npm install -g renovate

Linux (Ubuntu)

1. Install nvm, npm and renovate:

   curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash # (bump the version)
   nvm install node
   npm install -g renovate

Run renovate

Windows

renovate --token $env:GITHUB_TOKEN --platform=github christianshub/renovate-test

Linux (Ubuntu)

renovate --token $GITHUB_TOKEN --platform=github christianshub/renovate-test

Note you can also you docker for this: docker run --rm -e GITHUB_TOKEN=$GITHUB_TOKEN renovate/renovate:37 --platform=github christianshub/renovate-test

Debug

To obtain debug information, set a LOG_LEVEL environment variable to debug and run renovate again:

export LOG_LEVEL=debug

You can also dry run:

renovate --token $GITHUB_TOKEN --dry-run=true --platform=github christianshub/renovate-test