Renovate Cron #3828
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| name: Renovate Cron | |
| on: | |
| # This lets you dispatch a renovate job with different cache options if you want to reset or disable the cache manually. | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| inputs: | |
| repoCache: | |
| description: 'Reset or disable the cache?' | |
| type: choice | |
| default: enabled | |
| options: | |
| - enabled | |
| - disabled | |
| - reset | |
| schedule: | |
| # Run every 60 minutes: | |
| - cron: '0 * * * *' | |
| # Adding these as env variables makes it easy to re-use them in different steps and in bash. | |
| env: | |
| cache_archive: renovate_cache.tar.gz | |
| # This is the dir renovate provides -- if we set our own directory via cacheDir, we can run into permissions issues. | |
| # It is also possible to cache a higher level of the directory, but it has minimal benefit. While renovate execution | |
| # time gets faster, it also takes longer to upload the cache as it grows bigger. | |
| cache_dir: /tmp/renovate/cache/renovate/repository | |
| # This can be manually changed to bust the cache if neccessary. | |
| cache_key: renovate-cache | |
| jobs: | |
| renovate: | |
| name: Renovate | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| steps: | |
| - uses: actions/checkout@v4 | |
| # This third party action allows you to download the cache artifact from different workflow runs | |
| # Note that actions/cache doesn't work well because the cache key would need to be computed from | |
| # a file within the cache, meaning there would never be any data to restore. With other keys, the | |
| # cache wouldn't necessarily upload when it changes. actions/download-artifact also doesn't work | |
| # because it only handles artifacts uploaded in the same run, and we want to restore from the | |
| # previous successful run. | |
| - uses: dawidd6/action-download-artifact@v5 | |
| if: github.event.inputs.repoCache != 'disabled' | |
| continue-on-error: true | |
| with: | |
| name: ${{ env.cache_key }} | |
| path: cache-download | |
| # Generate an access token for the backstage-goalie[bot] account. | |
| - name: Get token | |
| id: get_token | |
| uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v1 | |
| with: | |
| app-id: ${{ secrets.BACKSTAGE_GOALIE_APPLICATION_ID }} | |
| private-key: ${{ secrets.BACKSTAGE_GOALIE_PRIVATE_KEY }} | |
| owner: ${{ github.repository_owner }} | |
| repositories: ${{ github.event.repository.name }} | |
| # Using tar to compress and extract the archive isn't strictly necessary, but it can improve | |
| # performance significantly when uploading artifacts with lots of files. | |
| - name: Extract renovate cache | |
| run: | | |
| set -x | |
| # Skip if no cache is set, such as the first time it runs. | |
| if [ ! -d cache-download ] ; then | |
| echo "No cache found." | |
| exit 0 | |
| fi | |
| # Make sure the directory exists, and extract it there. Note that it's nested in the download directory. | |
| mkdir -p $cache_dir | |
| tar -xzf cache-download/$cache_archive -C $cache_dir | |
| # Unfortunately, the permissions expected within renovate's docker container | |
| # are different than the ones given after the cache is restored. We have to | |
| # change ownership to solve this. We also need to have correct permissions in | |
| # the entire /tmp/renovate tree, not just the section with the repo cache. | |
| sudo chown -R runneradmin:root /tmp/renovate/ | |
| ls -R $cache_dir | |
| - uses: renovatebot/github-action@v40.1.10 | |
| with: | |
| configurationFile: .github/renovate-action.json | |
| renovate-version: full | |
| token: ${{ steps.get_token.outputs.token }} | |
| env: | |
| # This enables the cache -- if this is set, it's not necessary to add it to renovate.json. | |
| RENOVATE_REPOSITORY_CACHE: ${{ github.event.inputs.repoCache || 'enabled' }} | |
| LOG_LEVEL: DEBUG | |
| # Compression helps performance in the upload step! | |
| - name: Compress renovate cache | |
| run: | | |
| ls $cache_dir | |
| # The -C is important -- otherwise we end up extracting the files with | |
| # their full path, ultimately leading to a nested directory situation. | |
| # To solve *that*, we'd have to extract to root (/), which isn't safe. | |
| tar -czvf $cache_archive -C $cache_dir . | |
| - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 | |
| if: github.event.inputs.repoCache != 'disabled' | |
| with: | |
| name: ${{ env.cache_key }} | |
| path: ${{ env.cache_archive }} | |
| # Since this is updated and restored on every run, we don't need to keep it | |
| # for long. Just make sure this value is large enough that multiple renovate | |
| # runs can happen before older cache archives are deleted. | |
| retention-days: 1 |