Hey you, yes you, you are at the right place :)
You want to keep track of your dependencies?
This build task is helping you to use renovate directly with your Azure DevOps Services git repo. (Check their nice Doc if you want to know more)
Task Setup
Select a linux Agent queue
Check that your Project collection build service as the right to
Create branch
Contribute to Pull Request
Force Push(if you want renovate to delete branchs when closing outdated renovations)
Make sure you are on a node >= 10.13.0
Optional: install yarn
Use a yaml file
Microsoft recommends to use multi-staging-pipelines and not the class build / release pipelines. Below you see an example
- task: geeklearningio.gl-vsts-tasks-yarn.yarn-installer-task.YarnInstaller@3
displayName: 'Use yarn'
- task: NodeTool@0
displayName: 'Use node'
inputs:
versionSpec: <your node version>
- task: jyc.vsts-extensions-renovate-me.default-build-task.RenovateMe@1
input:
renovateOptionsVersion: 10.3.0 # optional | semantic version of the renovate version to use
renovateOptionsArgs: '--ignore-unstable=false' # optional | see the folowing for all options https://docs.renovatebot.com/self-hosted-configuration/
displayName: Run renovate
Optional Add a Github token so RenovateBot can pull release notes
In Github, head to your account -> Settings -> Developer settings -> Personal access tokens -> Generate new token -> Generate new token (no need to tick any boxes - this token just needs to be able to read public github data). Copy the new PAT
In your pipeline, add a new Pipeline Variable, GITHUB_COM_TOKEN, and paste your new PAT as the value. Tick the box to tell Azure Devops this is a secret.
In your Renovate task, add the following in Options -> Additional args:
