// ================================================================================================= // Renovate configuration — JSON5, so the rationale can live NEXT TO what it explains. // ================================================================================================= // THIS FILE WAS `renovate.json` AND IT WAS INVALID. It carried five `_comment` / `_*_comment` // pseudo-comment keys, because JSON has no comments. Renovate REJECTS unknown top-level options, so // the whole config failed validation and the first manual run of the workflow ERRORED OUT. Proven // with the official validator (`ghcr.io/renovatebot/renovate renovate-config-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 // // Renovate discovers `renovate.json5` natively (no RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE needed, and nothing in // .gitea/ or ci/ pins the old filename — only prose in comments), and JSON5 permits real `//` // comments. So the fix keeps every word of the original rationale, positioned, instead of // flattening it into a `description` string. // // VALIDATE BEFORE COMMITTING — it is one command and it is the only thing that catches this class: // podman run --rm -v "$PWD/renovate.json5:/tmp/renovate.json5:ro,Z" \ // ghcr.io/renovatebot/renovate renovate-config-validator /tmp/renovate.json5 // // CORRECTION (2026-10-29): THE VALIDATOR ABOVE WAS NOT THE RENOVATE THE WORKFLOW RUNS. The bare // `ghcr.io/renovatebot/renovate` tag is `latest` (44.167.0 when this was measured), while // renovatebot/github-action@v41.0.9 defaults `renovate-version` to `39` (its action.yml), i.e. // 39.264.0. Validated against THAT, this file failed with five errors — every // `managerFilePatterns` key ("Custom Manager contains disallowed fields", "Invalid configuration // option: flux.managerFilePatterns", ...), because 39.x only knows `fileMatch`; the rename landed // in 40.2.0. So even after the workflow found this file, every run would have stopped at // CONFIG_VALIDATION. renovate.yaml now pins the exact release this file is validated against — // since 2026-10-30 as the job's `container.image` tag (the action is gone: it needed a Docker // daemon jobs here do not get). VALIDATE WITH THAT SAME TAG: // podman run --rm -v "$PWD/renovate.json5:/tmp/renovate.json5:ro,Z" \ // ghcr.io/renovatebot/renovate: \ // renovate-config-validator /tmp/renovate.json5 // (Not `--strict`: that also fails on a pending migration of the pre-existing top-level // `"docker": {"enabled": true}` block at the bottom, which is a warning, not an error.) // // `regex` vs `custom.regex` in enabledManagers, RESOLVED FROM SOURCE (Renovate 39.264.0 and // later): both work. lib/config/migrations/custom/enabled-managers-migration.ts rewrites // `regex` -> `custom.regex`, and that migration runs on every real repository run // (lib/workers/repository/init/merge.ts -> migrateAndValidate), not only in the validator; // lib/modules/manager/index.ts getEnabledManagersList accepts either spelling. `custom.regex` is // the canonical name (introduced in 37.51.1, renovatebot/renovate#24079), so it is used below and // nothing depends on the migration any more. { "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json", // Renovate config — Phase 4 automated updates (ADR-0009, R-UPD-01/02). AS OF 2026-10-17 // RENOVATE OWNS BOTH HALVES: Helm chart/dependency bumps AND per-service container image tags. // It opens PRs for everything; allowed low-risk classes auto-merge on green CI. The ADR-0009 // split that gave image tags to Flux image-automation is formally closed — see // .gitea/workflows/renovate.yaml for the three measured reasons (it pushes commits rather than // opening PRs, so it bypasses the CLAUDE.md §1 gate; `main` is protected with // user_can_push:false and the flux-system GitRepository has no secretRef, so it cannot write // anyway; and enabling it would need an in-cluster git WRITE credential for the repo that // defines the cluster). image-automation has been commented out at // platform/kustomization.yaml:52 since it was authored and the cluster holds zero // ImagePolicy/ImageRepository/ImageUpdateAutomation objects, so nothing is being torn down. // CONSEQUENCE: the `docker` and `kubernetes` managers, previously disabled ONLY to avoid // fighting that controller, are now ENABLED — without them every plain `image: repo/name:tag` // line in this repo was maintained by nothing at all, which is how the oauth2-proxy auth // sidecars reached 7 minors behind the oauth2-proxy running in the same cluster. RUNNER: // .gitea/workflows/renovate.yaml (scheduled daily); platform/endpoint are set there, not here. "extends": ["config:recommended", ":dependencyDashboard", ":semanticCommits", "helpers:pinGitHubActionDigests"], "timezone": "America/New_York", "schedule": ["after 3am and before 6am"], "prConcurrentLimit": 5, "prHourlyLimit": 2, "commitMessagePrefix": "chore(deps):", "labels": ["dependencies", "automated-update"], "ignoreUnstable": true, "respectLatest": true, "enabledManagers": ["flux", "kustomize", "helmv3", "kubernetes", "custom.regex", "github-actions"], "flux": { "managerFilePatterns": [ "/(^|/)platform/.+\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)apps/.+\\.ya?ml$/" ] }, "kustomize": { "managerFilePatterns": [ "/(^|/)kustomization\\.ya?ml$/" ] }, // ADDED 2026-10-17. The `kubernetes` manager reads plain `image:` fields out of Kubernetes // manifests, and it is NOT auto-detected — it only looks at files matched here, which is why // this block is as broad as it is. Scope covers every place this repo writes a container image: // platform components, the rendered app waves, the ServiceDefinition catalog that generates // them, the runbooks web server and the pm-agent job template. `catalog/` matters as much as // `apps/`: apps/wave-*/*.yaml are GENERATED by catalog/render.py, so a bump applied only to the // rendered output is reverted by the next render and would also fail ci/render-golden.sh. // Renovate will raise BOTH, and both must land together. "kubernetes": { "managerFilePatterns": [ "/(^|/)platform/.+\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)platform-config/.+\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)apps/.+\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)catalog/.+\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)runbooks/serving/.+\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)infra/agent/.+\\.ya?ml$/" ] }, "customManagers": [ { "customType": "regex", "description": "Inline `# renovate: datasource=... depName=...` markers on pinned URLs / version literals (e.g. platform/kubevirt/kustomization.yaml release URLs, ci/versions.env, infra/devcontainer/versions.env).", "managerFilePatterns": [ "/(^|/)kustomization\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)versions\\.env$/" ], "matchStrings": [ "#\\s*renovate:\\s*datasource=(?\\S+)\\s+depName=(?\\S+)(?:\\s+versioning=(?\\S+))?\\s*\\n.*?(?v?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)" ], "versioningTemplate": "{{#if versioning}}{{{versioning}}}{{else}}semver{{/if}}" }, // ADDED 2026-10-29 — THIS REPO'S OWN IMAGES (toolbox, agent-runner, conformance-runner). // CI publishes them (.gitea/workflows/images.yaml) under an immutable `sha-` tag and a // moving `main` tag, and never writes to git. Every reference to them is DIGEST-ONLY // (`@sha256:`, no tag), because the admission policies // (platform/kyverno/admission/pm-agent-job-shape.yaml, conformance-trigger-job-shape.yaml) // admit exactly that form. A digest alone gives Renovate nothing to follow, so the tag to // follow rides in a marker comment on the line ABOVE the reference: // // # renovate-digest: image=// tag=main // sha256:<64 hex> // // `main` is not a version, so Renovate skips the release lookup and proposes a `digest` // update whenever the tag's digest moves (lib/workers/repository/process/lookup/index.ts: // an unversioned currentValue WITH a currentDigest yields updateType `digest`). The // `sha256:` prefix is INSIDE currentDigest on purpose: Renovate replaces that capture // verbatim with the new digest, which carries the prefix. // // DELIBERATELY NOT TRACKED: infra/agent/worker-job-template.yaml. It is baked INTO // agent-runner, so bumping it would rebuild agent-runner and loop forever; pm-dispatch // overwrites that field from PM_WORKER_IMAGE at runtime anyway. // REGISTRY AUTH: the Gitea registry answers 401 to anonymous reads, and the platform token is // scoped to hostType `gitea`, which a docker lookup never matches // (lib/util/host-rules.ts find). renovate.yaml supplies a hostType `docker` rule. { "customType": "regex", "description": "This repo's own CI-published images, pinned by digest, following the tag named in a `# renovate-digest:` marker on the previous line.", "managerFilePatterns": [ "/(^|/)versions\\.env$/", "/(^|/)platform/pm-agent/.+\\.ya?ml$/" ], "matchStrings": [ "#\\s*renovate-digest:\\s*image=(?\\S+)\\s+tag=(?\\S+)\\s*\\n[^\\n]*?(?sha256:[a-f0-9]{64})" ], "datasourceTemplate": "docker", "versioningTemplate": "docker" }, // ADDED 2026-10-30 — THE CATALOG IS THE SOURCE; apps/wave-*/*.yaml IS GENERATED FROM IT. // First real dry run (dispatch runs 353/354): EVERY app-image update edited only the rendered // apps/wave-*/*.yaml and NONE edited catalog/. The `kubernetes` manager lists catalog/ above // but extracts nothing there: a ServiceDefinition has no `apiVersion`, so it is not a // Kubernetes manifest to that manager (measured: 0 deps from catalog/). Every such PR would // fail ci/render-golden.sh (the canonical render reverts the bump), sit red and hold a // prConcurrentLimit slot. These two managers read the SOURCES, under the SAME depName as the // rendered line, so both land in ONE branch and render==golden holds: `source.image` in each // ServiceDefinition, and render.py's OAUTH2_PROXY_IMAGE (the six auth sidecars). { "customType": "regex", "description": "ServiceDefinition `source.image: :` (catalog/*.yaml) — the source of the rendered apps/wave-* image.", "managerFilePatterns": ["/(^|/)catalog/[^/]+\\.ya?ml$/"], "matchStrings": [ "\\n\\s+image:\\s*(?[^\\s:@#\"']+):(?[^\\s@#\"']+)" ], "datasourceTemplate": "docker" }, { "customType": "regex", "description": "catalog/render.py OAUTH2_PROXY_IMAGE — the per-app oauth2-proxy sidecar every forward-auth app is rendered with.", "managerFilePatterns": ["/(^|/)catalog/render\\.py$/"], "matchStrings": [ "\\nOAUTH2_PROXY_IMAGE\\s*=\\s*\"(?[^\":@]+):(?[^\"@]+)\"" ], "datasourceTemplate": "docker" }, // ADDED 2026-10-30 — CNPG `Cluster.spec.imageName`. The `kubernetes` manager reads `image:` only, // so the three database Clusters (platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml, apps/wave-0/ // nextcloud-db.yaml, apps/wave-0/semaphore-db.yaml) were untracked, while the grant Job in // nextcloud-db.yaml — whose comment says "keep the tag in step with spec.imageName" — WAS. A real // run would have bumped the Job and left the database behind. Same depName, so one branch. { "customType": "regex", "description": "CloudNativePG Cluster `imageName: :`.", "managerFilePatterns": [ "/(^|/)platform/.+\\.ya?ml$/", "/(^|/)apps/.+\\.ya?ml$/" ], "matchStrings": [ "\\n\\s+imageName:\\s*(?[^\\s:@#\"']+):(?[^\\s@#\"']+)" ], "datasourceTemplate": "docker" } ], "packageRules": [ { "description": "Auto-merge the allowed low-risk classes on green CI \u2014 no human authoring (R-UPD-02). The Gitea merge gate (make -C ci gate) is the required check.", "matchUpdateTypes": [ "minor", "patch", "digest" ], "automerge": true, "automergeType": "pr", "platformAutomerge": true }, { "description": "MAJOR / potentially-breaking bumps require human review (docs/11 safety rail). Never auto-merged.", "matchUpdateTypes": [ "major" ], "automerge": false, "addLabels": [ "needs-review", "breaking" ] }, { "description": "Keep the KubeVirt + CDI operator pair on a compatible track \u2014 grouped so they bump together (platform/kubevirt/kustomization.yaml).", "matchDepNames": [ "kubevirt/kubevirt", "kubevirt/containerized-data-importer" ], "groupName": "kubevirt-cdi" }, { "description": "Pinned tool versions (ci/versions.env, infra/devcontainer/versions.env) are a deliberate change surface \u2014 label but do not auto-merge; a version bump there changes CI reproducibility.", "matchFileNames": [ "ci/versions.env", "infra/devcontainer/versions.env" ], "automerge": false, "addLabels": [ "ci-tooling" ] }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-17. NEVER AUTO-MERGE THE BLAST-RADIUS COMPONENTS, not even a patch. The default rule above auto-merges minor/patch/digest on a green gate, which is right for an app image: a bad Sonarr bump inconveniences one pod. It is wrong for these five, because the gate is a STATIC check \u2014 it renders manifests and lints them, it does not boot a node, drain a volume or form an etcd quorum (vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE is unset, so L2/L3 conformance does not run in CI at all). So for anything whose failure mode is the CLUSTER rather than a service, a green gate is not evidence and a human must read the changelog. kured is here because it reboots control-plane nodes; longhorn because a storage-engine bump migrates live volume data; cilium because it is the CNI and a bad bump is a total partition (and its version is DUAL-PINNED in infra/ansible/roles/cilium/defaults/main.yml, which Renovate does not see, so the two would silently desync); cloudnative-pg because it drives Postgres switchovers; kube-prometheus-stack because ci/versions.env asserts an exact promtool/Prometheus lockstep and a chart bump that moves Prometheus fails the gate until that file moves with it.", "matchPackageNames": [ "kured", "longhorn", "cilium", "cloudnative-pg", "kube-prometheus-stack", // ADDED 2026-10-30. gitea and act_runner ARE the merge gate: a bad auto-merged bump takes // down the very check that would have to approve its revert (the dry run proposed gitea // 1.24.3 -> 1.27.3 and act_runner 0.2.11 -> 0.6.1, both as auto-mergeable "minor"; a 0.x // minor is a breaking line by semver). The postgresql image restarts every CNPG database, // Keycloak's (the IdP) included, now that imageName is tracked. "gitea/gitea", "gitea/act_runner", "ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql" ], "automerge": false, "addLabels": [ "needs-review", "blast-radius" ] }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-29. This repo's own images are followed ONLY through the `# renovate-digest:` markers above. The `kubernetes` manager also sees platform/pm-agent/deployment.yaml and infra/agent/worker-job-template.yaml, where the image has a digest and no tag; left on, it would look those up as `latest` (a tag CI never pushes) and, for the template, re-open the self-referential loop the custom manager deliberately avoids.", "matchManagers": ["kubernetes"], "matchPackageNames": [ "gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/home-network/toolbox", "gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/home-network/agent-runner", "gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/home-network/conformance-runner" ], "enabled": false }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-29. Digest bumps for this repo's own images: the image was built and verified by CI before it was published, so these auto-merge on a green gate like any digest (rule 1). Labelled so they are easy to find. NOTE: the conformance-runner bump edits conformance/versions.env, a sensitive path (infra/gitea/approval-policy.json), so it will wait for an administrator's /approve-override regardless of this rule.", "matchManagers": ["custom.regex"], "matchPackageNames": [ "gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/home-network/toolbox", "gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/home-network/agent-runner", "gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/home-network/conformance-runner" ], "addLabels": ["own-image"] }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-30. The `flux` manager also extracts `image:` lines inside HelmRelease values, which the `kubernetes` manager already owns. Measured: exactly two (alpine in platform/oauth2-proxy/helmrelease.yaml, velero-plugin-for-aws in platform/velero/helmrelease.yaml), each extracted twice; the second rewrite of the same line logged `Cannot find replaceString in current file content` in runs 353/354. Flux keeps its charts (datasource helm).", "matchManagers": ["flux"], "matchDatasources": ["docker"], "enabled": false }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-30. MIRRORS catalog/.yaml `update.range` — the operator's declared per-service policy (schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json), which Renovate does not read. Without it the dry run proposed gitea 28.2.0, qbittorrent 20.04.1 (both stale/odd tags, not real successors), radarr 6.x and nextcloud 35 (four majors past 31; Nextcloud cannot skip majors). KEEP IN STEP with the catalog ranges.", "matchPackageNames": ["gitea/gitea"], "allowedVersions": "<2.0.0" }, { "matchPackageNames": ["nextcloud"], "allowedVersions": "<32.0.0" }, { "matchPackageNames": ["lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent"], "allowedVersions": "<6.0.0" }, { "matchPackageNames": ["lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr"], "allowedVersions": "<6.0.0" }, { "matchPackageNames": ["lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr"], "allowedVersions": "<5.0.0" }, { "matchPackageNames": ["semaphoreui/semaphore"], "allowedVersions": "<3.0.0" }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-30. A CNPG Postgres MAJOR is a migration (new cluster + import), not an image bump; the dry run proposed 16.4 -> 18.6. Minors stay (and are blast-radius, above).", "matchPackageNames": ["ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql"], "allowedVersions": "<17.0.0" }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-30. A HelmRelease semver RANGE is a policy ceiling, and Renovate does not respect it — it WIDENS it (dry run: external-dns `<1.22.0` -> `<1.24.0`, headlamp `<0.42.0` -> `<0.47.0`), and the default rule would then auto-merge that as a 'minor', silently letting Flux adopt every new minor. Raising a ceiling is deliberate per-component work: propose it, never auto-merge it.", "matchManagers": ["flux"], "matchCurrentValue": "/^[<>=~^]|\\.x$/", "automerge": false, "addLabels": ["needs-review", "range-widen"] }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-30. velero-plugin-for-aws is pinned to a RELEASE CANDIDATE (v1.14.3-rc.2) and Renovate proposed NOTHING for it, although v1.14.3 and v1.14.4 are stable on Docker Hub. Docker versioning treats everything after the first `-` as a compatibility SUFFIX, so only other `*-rc.2` tags qualify and the RC is a fossil forever. Semver versioning reads it as a prerelease, and a prerelease upgrades to the stable release.", "matchPackageNames": ["velero/velero-plugin-for-aws"], "versioning": "semver" }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-30. A python MINOR is a language-runtime release (the dry run proposed 3.13 -> 3.15 for the Keycloak reconcilers), and the gate does not execute those scripts. Review it; patches still auto-merge.", "matchPackageNames": ["python"], "matchUpdateTypes": ["minor"], "automerge": false, "addLabels": ["needs-review"] }, { "description": "ADDED 2026-10-30. MAJORS WAIT FOR A TICK ON THE DEPENDENCY DASHBOARD instead of opening a PR. They are never auto-merged anyway, and with prConcurrentLimit 5 the dry run's 10 majors would hold every PR slot open indefinitely, starving the patch/minor/digest PRs that can merge on green.", "matchUpdateTypes": ["major"], "dependencyDashboardApproval": true } ], // WHAT RENOVATE STILL CANNOT FIX, so nobody mistakes a working bot for full coverage. A // FLOATING tag has no version to compare, so Renovate skips it silently — it does not pin it // and does not warn. As of 2026-10-17 that is: plexinc/pms-docker:latest, // lscr.io/linuxserver/jackett:latest, pihole/pihole (NO TAG AT ALL), quay.io/keycloak/keycloak // (no tag), nextcloud:31-apache and docker:27-dind. Those must be pinned BY HAND to a concrete // version before any automation can maintain them, and until then they drift on every pull with // nothing recording what is running. CORRECTED 2026-10-30: nextcloud:31-apache and docker:27-dind // ARE maintained (the first dry run proposed 35-apache and 29-dind; the suffix is kept). // Separately, the HelmRelease minor-locking ranges (9 of 12, e.g. `>=88.0.0 <89.0.0` on // kube-prometheus-stack): THIS FILE USED TO SAY they cap Renovate at patches. They do not — // Renovate WIDENS the range (runs 353/354). The `range-widen` rule above keeps that a reviewed // PR rather than an auto-merge. Both lists are in decisions/2026-10-17-automated-upgrades.md. // platform/kyverno/tests/** ADDED 2026-10-17: those Kyverno policy fixtures pin `alpine:latest` // and a `conformance-runner:latest`, which are test inputs whose whole point is to be a fixed // shape, not software to keep current. `conformance/**` was already ignored for the same // reason; this closes the matching hole that enabling the `kubernetes` manager would otherwise // have opened. // conformance/** NARROWED 2026-10-29 to its subdirectories: ignorePaths applies to custom // managers too (lib/workers/repository/extract/file-match.ts getMatchingFiles -> // filterIgnoredFiles), so the blanket glob also hid conformance/versions.env, which now carries // the conformance-runner digest Renovate must maintain. Everything else under conformance/ // stays ignored, for the original reason (test fixtures with deliberately fixed shapes). "ignorePaths": [ "**/*.example", "**/*.sops.yaml", "conformance/config/**", "conformance/incluster/**", "conformance/lib/**", "conformance/requirements/**", "conformance/runs/**", "conformance/tests/**", "platform/image-automation/per-service/**", "platform/kyverno/tests/**" ], // The `docker` manager (Dockerfiles, docker-compose) and the `kubernetes` manager above were // BOTH previously `enabled: false`, solely so Renovate would not fight Flux image-automation // over a running tag. That controller was never enabled and never will be here (see _comment), // so the only thing those two flags were achieving was leaving every plain `image:` tag in the // repo unmanaged. `docker` is left out of enabledManagers because this repo contains no // Dockerfile that ships to the cluster; `kubernetes` is now ON and is the one that matters. "docker": { "enabled": true } }