Automated Dependency Updates for Bazel

Categories: bazel

Renovate supports updating Bazel dependencies.

File Matching¶

By default, Renovate will check any files matching any of the following regular expressions:

/(^|/)WORKSPACE(|\.bazel|\.bzlmod)$/
/\.WORKSPACE\.bazel$/
/\.bzl$/

For details on how to extend a manager's managerFilePatterns value, please follow this link.

Supported datasources¶

This manager supports extracting the following datasources: docker, github-releases, github-tags, go.

Dependency types¶

This manager extracts the following depType values:

`depType`	Description
`container_pull`	A Docker container image pulled via `container_pull`
`_container_pull`	A Docker container image pulled via the private `_container_pull` rule
`git_repository`	A Git repository dependency via `git_repository`
`_git_repository`	A Git repository dependency via the private `_git_repository` rule
`new_git_repository`	A Git repository with a custom BUILD file via `new_git_repository`
`_new_git_repository`	A Git repository with a custom BUILD file via the private `_new_git_repository` rule
`go_repository`	A Go module dependency via `go_repository`
`_go_repository`	A Go module dependency via the private `_go_repository` rule
`http_archive`	An archive downloaded over HTTP via `http_archive`
`_http_archive`	An archive downloaded over HTTP via the private `_http_archive` rule
`http_file`	A file downloaded over HTTP via `http_file`
`_http_file`	A file downloaded over HTTP via the private `_http_file` rule
`oci_pull`	An OCI container image pulled via `oci_pull`
`_oci_pull`	An OCI container image pulled via the private `_oci_pull` rule
`maven_install`	A Maven artifact installed via `maven_install`
`_maven_install`	A Maven artifact installed via the private `_maven_install` rule

Default config¶

{
  "managerFilePatterns": [
    "/(^|/)WORKSPACE(|\\.bazel|\\.bzlmod)$/",
    "/\\.WORKSPACE\\.bazel$/",
    "/\\.bzl$/"
  ]
}

Additional Information¶

Bazel is quite unlike most other "package managers" that Renovate supports, which usually focus on a particular ecosystem like JavaScript, Ruby or Docker. Instead, Bazel is a build tool so supports a multitude of languages/datasources. Renovate does not support all possible Bazel references, although would like to, and feature requests are welcome.

If you need to change the versioning format, read the versioning documentation to learn more.