Automated Dependency Updates for Devcontainer

Categories: docker

Renovate supports updating Devcontainer dependencies.

File Matching

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

^.devcontainer/devcontainer.json$
^.devcontainer.json$

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

Supported datasources

This manager supports extracting the following datasources: docker, golang-version, node-version, python-version, ruby-version.

Default config

{
  "fileMatch": [
    "^.devcontainer/devcontainer.json$",
    "^.devcontainer.json$"
  ]
}

Additional Information

Extracts all Docker images from the image and features properties in these files:

• .devcontainer.json
• .devcontainer/devcontainer.json

It extracts some known versions of the features, like node and python.

The devcontainer manager does not support build.dockerFile or dockerComposeFile values as these are covered by the dockerfile and docker-compose managers respectively.