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Big fan of renovate for terraform dependency management.

Ran into some complications with restarting an onboarding with Whitesource Renovate in Azure DevOps Repos and the Azure Pipeline automation. I’ve run into this before, so logging this for my sanity.

  • If you failed to onboard with Azure DevOps, you can’t rename the PR like in GitHub to simplify restarting the onboarding process.
  • Instead, delete the renovate.json file and commit to your default branch.
  • Then re-add and get the renovate.json committed back to your default branch.
  • Run your Azure DevOps Pipeline to trigger the dependency assessment.
  • If you didn’t add the project build service account to your repo with Contribute, Contribute to Pull Requests, Force Push (to allow force update of branches it creates), and Create Tag.