The Keycloak CR has no spec.image, so the operator's RELATED_IMAGE_KEYCLOAK picks the
server image; the three keycloak-k8s-resources release URLs in
platform/keycloak/kustomization.yaml are therefore THE Keycloak version, and Renovate
could not see them (no `# renovate:` marker). They now carry markers under one depName
(one branch, groupName keycloak-operator), with a packageRule: automerge false, labels
needs-review + blast-radius; majors still wait on the dashboard.
The untagged quay.io/keycloak/keycloak in catalog/keycloak.yaml renders
apps/wave-1/keycloak.yaml, which no kustomization lists. It is pinned to the operator's
26.0.6 as documentation, re-rendered, and Renovate is disabled for that image so it
cannot raise PRs against a file nothing deploys. The render is kept (not deleted): it is
the fixture for apps/wave-1/tests/app-slis.test.yaml's keycloak SLI rule tests.
README: an "Upgrading Keycloak" section — an operator bump must be checked against
passkey-reconciler.yaml's 26.0.6 Admin API assumptions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Audit of the first completed dry runs (353/354) plus a debug-level local reproduction:
- App-image updates edited only the generated apps/wave-*. A ServiceDefinition has no apiVersion,
so the kubernetes manager extracts nothing from catalog/, and every such PR would fail
render-golden (reproduced: GOLDEN DRIFT). New regex managers for catalog source.image and
render.py OAUTH2_PROXY_IMAGE put the source and generated edits in one branch (render-golden
rc 0, reproduced).
- CNPG Cluster imageName was untracked (3 Clusters), while the grant Job was tracked. New manager.
- allowedVersions mirror catalog update.range: this drops gitea 28.x, qbittorrent 20.x, radarr 6,
nextcloud 35 and postgresql 18.
- Never auto-merge: gitea, act_runner, postgresql (blast radius), flux range widening, python
minors. Majors wait for a Dependency Dashboard tick.
- velero plugin RC: semver versioning (v1.14.3-rc.2 -> v1.14.4 now proposed).
- flux docker duplicates disabled (the "Cannot find replaceString" line). Two false comments
corrected.
Local dry run: regex deps 7 -> 20, branches 33 -> 29. The validator passes on 44.167.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
renovatebot/github-action is a wrapper around `docker run`. On this runner a job has no Docker
daemon by decision (decisions/2026-10-29-image-pipeline.md), so every run, including dispatch
run 343, died before Renovate started:
failed to connect to the docker API at unix:///var/run/docker.sock ... no such file or directory
The pinned image ghcr.io/renovatebot/renovate:44.167.0 is now the job container, and a run step
execs renovate-entrypoint.sh. actions/checkout is dropped, since Renovate clones the repo itself.
An optional RENOVATE_GITHUB_COM_TOKEN secret feeds GITHUB_COM_TOKEN.
Local dry run (--platform=local, uid 12021, the step body verbatim): 179 deps extracted, 42
updates, and all 4 own-image digest lookups against the Gitea registry succeed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Operator rule 2026-10-29: image creation, hosting and lifecycle belong to CI/CD, never to a
workstation build/push. Nothing had ever been pushed to the Gitea registry.
- .gitea/workflows/images.yaml + scripts/images.sh: PRs build+verify (no credential); main
builds, verifies and pushes toolbox, agent-runner (FROM toolbox) and conformance-runner as
sha-<commit> + main, reading the digest back from the registry. Only changed images build.
- Each image's own build-image.sh does the build and in-image verification, now engine-neutral
(DinD: no podman-only calls, probe over stdin not a bind mount). New toolbox build-image.sh.
- Digest references carry `# renovate-digest:` markers; renovate.json5 gains a custom.regex
manager for them. The worker Job template is deliberately untracked (it would loop).
- renovate.yaml pins renovate-version 44.167.0: the action's default (39.264.0) rejects the
current config's managerFilePatterns, so every run would have died at CONFIG_VALIDATION.
- Push credential: REGISTRY_PUSH_TOKEN secret; the Actions token has no package scope in
Gitea 1.24.3 (container.go Authenticate). Retention: infra/gitea/registry-retention.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The operator ran the Renovate workflow manually and it failed. The cause is not
the workflow: renovate.json was never a valid Renovate config. It carried five
pseudo-comment keys (_comment, _kubernetes_comment, _unmanageable_comment,
_ignorePaths_comment, _docker_comment) because JSON has no comments, and
Renovate REJECTS unknown top-level options. Proven with the official validator:
ERROR: Found errors in configuration
Invalid configuration option: _comment
Invalid configuration option: _docker_comment
Invalid configuration option: _ignorePaths_comment
Invalid configuration option: _kubernetes_comment
Invalid configuration option: _unmanageable_comment
This is the SECOND independent reason Renovate never worked, on top of PR #77's
cron firing outside renovate.json's own schedule window. Either alone was enough
to produce "nothing ever happens"; #73 shipped both.
Converted renovate.json -> renovate.json5. JSON5 permits real // comments and
Renovate discovers renovate.json5 natively; nothing in .gitea/ or ci/ pins the
old filename and no RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE is set. Every word of the original
rationale is preserved as positioned comments (74 comment lines) rather than
flattened into a description string.
Verified the conversion dropped nothing: 18 non-comment keys before and after,
no missing/extra keys, no changed values, docker: {enabled: true} still present.
The validator now returns "Config validated successfully".
DISPROVED while here: `enabledManagers` containing bare `regex` was suspected of
needing to be `custom.regex` (which would silently disable every inline
`# renovate:` marker). The validator accepts `regex`; unfounded, unchanged.
Renovate has still never completed a run -- this fixes one of two blockers and
nothing in the gate catches an invalid config. See the handoff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
jakman85andClaude Opus 5.5