smarter way to discover repositories

[omercnet]

we use GitHub and have many repositories, some of which we don't need to self host renovate for (open source repos)

I was thinking of ways to balance between the official renovatebot and the self hosted one - was thinking of (probably github specific) attributes that can be used to filter repositories

• tags/topics
• type (internal/private/public)

what do you think? is there a better way of combining both self hosted and not self hosted renovate in the same github organization?

[rarkins]

Just to clarify:

• You're running it as a github app
• You select "All repositories"
• You get onboarding PRs to every non-fork/non-archive repo in the org?

[omercnet]

correct

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[rarkins]

And what is the reason for talking about combining self hosted and not self hosted? i.e. why not go all-in on either the hosted app or your self-hosted instance?

[omercnet]

Actually not strictly related to hosting solution, but I just don't see any good reason to self host public repos

Also some repos have renovate disabled completely so it's a waste of cycles to iterate on them

The general need is to reduce load from the self hosted renovate to improve performance and response times to hooks

[mnacken]

Hello,

I would like to get involved in the topic. We are currently migrating from GitHub to GitLab. We have been using RenovateBot (formerly Renovatebot Pro, Whitesource Renovate, now Renovate CE) within a Kubernetes cluster for a long time. We appreciate the webhook functionality along with the use of a GitHub app.

We are currently faced with the question of how we want to operate the RenovateBot with our new GitLab instance (including webhook), especially since the GitHub app is not available there. Also we want to discover our projects with an GitLab Topic tag.
The autodiscoverTopics feature (https://docs.renovatebot.com/self-hosted-configuration/#autodiscovertopics) seems to be reserved for the regular RenovateBot version.

It would be a great help for us if this functionality were also supported by the Renovatebot CE. If this is not the right place I can create an own issue for that.

Best Regards,
Marco

[rarkins]

@omercnet it would be best to have this as a separate issue, especially as your request is quite direct (support autodiscoverTopics in CE/EE)

[mnacken]

Alright, you tagged the wrong guy :) I'll open a new issue 👍