Automated dependency updates (Interview)

Rhys Arkins joined the show to talk about automating dependency updates using Renovate. Renovate is an open source tool to keep source code dependencies up-to-date using automated Pull Requests. We talked about who’s using it, the languages and environments that are supported, self-hosted vs SaaS and how that plays into supporting this open source, auto-merging, being a GitHub App and in the GitHub Marketplace, and building this as a business on someone else’s platform.

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Featuring:

• Rhys Arkins – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• renovateapp.com - Automated dependency updates. Flexible, so you don’t need to be.
• renovateapp/renovate
• Install Renovate on GitHub
• Renovate on GitHub Marketplace

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!