fix(renovate): run Renovate as the job container; the action needs a Docker daemon jobs do not get #84

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jakman85andClaude Opus 5.5	365e43cdea	fix(renovate): run Renovate as the job container; the action needs a Docker daemon jobs do not get gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 2m52s Details gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped Details 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]>	2026-10-30 01:23:36 -05:00

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jakman85andClaude Opus 5.5

365e43cdea

fix(renovate): run Renovate as the job container; the action needs a Docker daemon jobs do not get

gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 2m52s

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gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped

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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]>

2026-10-30 01:23:36 -05:00