Fully Automating Renovate Prs

April 2023

Fully automated renovate PRs

In this blog post I’ll be talking about how you can fully automate renovate PRs. So you can keep your applications up to date without even having to lift a finger!

Topics

• Getting started
  • Setting up a repo with demo app
• Enabling basic renovate
• Viewing an example PR
• Enabling automerge settings
• Enabling the approve bot
• Global renovate settings + adding settings to repo

Getting Started

• Add repo
• Add code
• Set up branch protection

Setting up branch protection

Now we will set up branch protection on our default branch. This should be called main unless you have changed it to something else.

Go to the repo you have set up, click settings -> branches then click on the Add branch protection rule button.

Our settings should look like this:

These settings will make sure that at least one approver is needed and that the Build workflow has to complete succesfully before the PR can be merged.

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