Config-help: Not finding Renovate folder

[billyto]

Which Renovate are you using?

Renovate Open Source CLI

Which platform are you using?

GitHub.com

Have you checked the logs? Don't forget to include them if relevant

➜  local kubectl logs renovate-vnccd
[dumb-init] renovate: No such file or directory

What would you like to do?

I'm deploying renovate via Kubernetes, initially in my local env (minikube).

• The configuration sets up a dry run
• Specifying the config file (the pod is getting the file deployed)
• And setting up the renovate working dir (I can confirm that the dir exists).

but when I run the Kubernetes CronJob, it fails due to not able to find a "renovate" file or dir.

I'm wondering what is this renovate file/dir, and where can be configured; any hint is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Here is the yaml:

  apiVersion: v1
  kind: ConfigMap
  metadata:
    name: renovate-config
  data:
    config.json: |-
      {
        "logLevel" : "debug",
        "dryRun" : "true"
      }

---
apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: renovate-bot
spec:
  schedule: '@hourly'
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
          - image: renovate/renovate:23.22.1
            name: renovate-bot
            # command: [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "ls -l /tmp/renovate/" ]  
            env:
              - name: RENOVATE_PLATFORM
                value: 'github'
              - name: GITHUB_COM_TOKEN
                value: 'xxxxx'
              - name: RENOVATE_TOKEN
                value: 'xxxxx'
              - name: RENOVATE_AUTODISCOVER
                value: 'true'
              - name: RENOVATE_BASE_DIR
                value: '/tmp/renovate/'
            volumeMounts:
            - name: config-volume
              mountPath: /usr/src/app/
            - name: work-volume
              mountPath: /tmp/renovate/
          restartPolicy: Never
          volumes:
            - name: config-volume
              configMap:
                name: renovate-config
            - name: work-volume
              emptyDir: {}

[rarkins]

This should be where the renovate binary is located: https://github.com/renovatebot/docker-renovate/blob/3b5bb2aa26abadaf2c44488b1ca4f4ce1f96d0b1/Dockerfile#L74

[viceice]

@billyto I think it can be caused by the volume mount. can you check /usr/src/app/ dir withcommand like command: [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "ls -l /usr/src/app/" ]

[billyto]

@viceice seems like the dir is present and has the config file, see command result

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct  9 12:47 config.json -> ..data/config.json

[viceice]

@billyto Your problem is, that kubernets is hiding our required renovate files in /usr/src/app/. So your solution is to mount the volume to another folder and set RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE env

---
  apiVersion: v1
  kind: ConfigMap
  metadata:
    name: renovate-config
  data:
    config.json: |-
      {
        "logLevel" : "debug",
        "dryRun" : "true"
      }

---
apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: renovate-bot
spec:
  schedule: '@hourly'
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
          - image: renovate/renovate:23.22.1
            name: renovate-bot
            # command: [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "ls -l /tmp/renovate/" ]  
            env:
              - name: RENOVATE_PLATFORM
                value: 'github'
              - name: GITHUB_COM_TOKEN
                value: 'xxxxx'
              - name: RENOVATE_TOKEN
                value: 'xxxxx'
              - name: RENOVATE_AUTODISCOVER
                value: 'true'
              - name: RENOVATE_BASE_DIR
                value: '/tmp/renovate/'
              - name: RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE
                value: /opt/renovate/config.json
            volumeMounts:
            - name: config-volume
              mountPath: /opt/renovate/
            - name: work-volume
              mountPath: /tmp/renovate/
          restartPolicy: Never
          volumes:
            - name: config-volume
              configMap:
                name: renovate-config
            - name: work-volume
              emptyDir: {}

[viceice]

Alternatively you can use subPath mount options, see https://dev.to/joshduffney/kubernetes-using-configmap-subpaths-to-mount-files-3a1i for sample

[billyto]

@viceice I just saw your comments, let me check them... we were writing at the same time!

---

Thanks for the quick response @rarkins & @viceice. digging on those routes

command: [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "ls -l /usr/local/bin/" ]

will show that the mappings are there:

total 61672
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root    1994202 Oct  7 14:38 composer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 61125298 Sep 16 17:05 docker
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root        268 Oct  7 10:38 docker-entrypoint.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root        186 Sep 26 02:04 install-apt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root        479 Sep 26 02:04 install-gem
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root        394 Sep 26 02:04 install-pip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root        480 Sep 26 02:04 install-tool
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         69 Sep 26 04:01 node
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root         29 Oct  7 12:18 renovate -> /usr/src/app/dist/renovate.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root         37 Oct  7 12:18 renovate-config-validator -> /usr/src/app/dist/config-validator.js

checking the Docker file fore the renovate library there is a CMD just calling 'renovate', this might be the one that is missing some how.

see:
https://github.com/renovatebot/docker-renovate/blob/3b5bb2aa26abadaf2c44488b1ca4f4ce1f96d0b1/Dockerfile#L76

Permissions seems fine, are we in the right dir to make this call, or this call correct?

Thanks!

[viceice]

see my last link. there is a good explanation what happend to you and how you can fix that. 🙃

[billyto]

It's working now! Thanks again for the help. Do you want me to send a PR to update the docs for K8s?

[viceice]

It's working now! Thanks again for the help. Do you want me to send a PR to update the docs for K8s?

Yes, that would be awesome.