renovate/lib/modules/datasource/gitlab-packages/readme.md

GitLab Packages API supports looking up package versions from all types of packages registry supported by GitLab and can be used in combination with regex managers to keep dependencies up-to-date which are not specifically supported by Renovate.

To specify which specific repository should be queried when looking up a package, the packageName should be formed with the project path first, then a : and finally the package name.

As an example, gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/feature-testing/new-packages-list:@gitlab-org/nk-js would look for the@gitlab-org/nk-js packages in the generic packages repository of the gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/feature-testing/new-packages-list project.

To specify where to find a self-hosted GitLab instance, specify registryUrl. An example would be https://gitlab.company.com.

If you are using a self-hosted GitLab instance, please note the following requirements:

• If you are on the Free edition, this datasource requires at least GitLab 13.3
• If you are on the Premium or the Ultimate edition, this datasource requires at least GitLab 11.8, but GitLab 12.9 or more is recommended if you have a lot of packages with different names in the same project

Usage Example

A real-world example for this specific datasource would be maintaining package versions in a config file. This can be achieved by configuring a custom manager in renovate.json for files named versions.ini:

{
  "customManagers": [
    {
      "customType": "regex",
      "fileMatch": ["^versions.ini$"],
      "matchStrings": [
        "# renovate: datasource=(?<datasource>.*?) depName=(?<depName>.*?)( versioning=(?<versioning>.*?))?( registryUrl=(?<registryUrl>.*?))?\\s.*?_VERSION=(?<currentValue>.*)\\s"
      ],
      "versioningTemplate": "{{#if versioning}}{{{versioning}}}{{else}}semver{{/if}}"
    }
  ]
}

Now you may use comments in your versions.ini files to automatically update dependencies, which could look like this:

# renovate: datasource=gitlab-packages depName=gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/feature-testing/new-packages-list:@gitlab-org/nk-js versioning=semver registryUrl=https://gitlab.com
NKJS_VERSION=3.4.0

By default, gitlab-packages uses the docker versioning scheme.