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Self-hosted experimental environment variables

The following environment variables are "experimental" because they:

  • are not commonly needed
  • are typically an effort to work around some other service's or platform's problem
  • can be removed at any time
  • are variables for Renovate's internal use to validate they work as intended

Experimental variables which are commonly used and for which there is no external solution in sight can be converted to an official configuration option by the Renovate bot developers.

Use these experimental variables at your own risk. We do not follow Semantic Versioning for any experimental variables. These variables may be removed or have their behavior changed in any version. We will try to keep breakage to a minimum, but make no guarantees that an experimental variable will keep working.

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT

If set, Renovate will export OpenTelemetry data to the supplied endpoint. For more information see the OpenTelemetry docs.

RENOVATE_CACHE_NPM_MINUTES

If set to any integer, Renovate will use this integer instead of the default npm cache time (15 minutes) for the npm datasource.

RENOVATE_EXPERIMENTAL_NO_MAVEN_POM_CHECK

If set to any value, Renovate will skip its default artifacts filter check in the Maven datasource. Skipping the check will speed things up, but may result in versions being returned which don't properly exist on the server.

RENOVATE_PAGINATE_ALL

If set to any value, Renovate will always paginate requests to GitHub fully, instead of stopping after 10 pages.

RENOVATE_REUSE_PACKAGE_LOCK

If set to "false" (string), Renovate will remove any existing package-lock.json before trying to update it.

RENOVATE_USER_AGENT

If set to any string, Renovate will use this as the user-agent it sends with HTTP requests.

RENOVATE_X_AUTODISCOVER_REPO_ORDER

Note

For the Forgejo and Gitea platform only.

The order method for autodiscover server side repository search.

If multiple autodiscoverTopics are used resulting order will be per topic not global.

Allowed values:

  • asc
  • desc

Default value: asc.

RENOVATE_X_AUTODISCOVER_REPO_SORT

Note

For the Forgejo and Gitea platform only.

The sort method for autodiscover server side repository search.

If multiple autodiscoverTopics are used resulting order will be per topic not global.

Allowed values:

  • alpha
  • created
  • updated
  • size
  • id

Default value: alpha.

RENOVATE_X_DELETE_CONFIG_FILE

If true Renovate tries to delete the self-hosted config file after reading it. You can set the config file Renovate should read with the RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.

The process that runs Renovate must have the correct permissions to delete the config file.

RENOVATE_X_DOCKER_HUB_TAGS

If set to any value, Renovate will use the Docker Hub API (https://hub.docker.com) to fetch tags instead of the normal Docker API for images pulled from https://index.docker.io.

RENOVATE_X_DOCKER_MAX_PAGES

If set to an integer, Renovate will use this as max page number for docker tags lookup on docker registries, instead of the default 20 pages. This is useful for registries which ignores the n parameter in the query string and only return 50 tags per page.

RENOVATE_X_EAGER_GLOBAL_EXTENDS

Resolve and merge globalExtends presets before other global config, instead of after.

RENOVATE_X_EXEC_GPID_HANDLE

If set, Renovate will terminate the whole process group of a terminated child process spawned by Renovate.

RENOVATE_X_GITLAB_AUTO_MERGEABLE_CHECK_ATTEMPS

If set to an positive integer, Renovate will use this as the number of attempts to check if a merge request on GitLab is mergeable before trying to automerge. The formula for the delay between attempts is RENOVATE_X_GITLAB_MERGE_REQUEST_DELAY * attempt * attempt milliseconds.

Default value: 5 (attempts results in max. 13.75 seconds timeout).

RENOVATE_X_GITLAB_BRANCH_STATUS_DELAY

Adjust default time (in milliseconds) given to GitLab to create pipelines for a commit pushed by Renovate.

Can be useful for slow-running, self-hosted GitLab instances that don't react fast enough for the default delay to help.

Default value: 1000 (milliseconds).

RENOVATE_X_GITLAB_MERGE_REQUEST_DELAY

If set, Renovate will use this as a delay to proceed with an automerge.

Default value: 250 (milliseconds).

RENOVATE_X_HARD_EXIT

If set to any value, Renovate will use a "hard" process.exit() once all work is done, even if a sub-process is otherwise delaying Node.js from exiting. See issue 8660 for background on why this was created.

RENOVATE_X_IGNORE_NODE_WARN

Suppress the default warning when a deprecated version of Node.js is used to run Renovate.

RENOVATE_X_IGNORE_RE2

Skip initializing RE2 for regular expressions and instead use Node-native RegExp instead.

RENOVATE_X_MERGE_CONFIDENCE_API_BASE_URL

If set, Renovate will query this API for Merge Confidence data. This feature is in private beta.

RENOVATE_X_MERGE_CONFIDENCE_SUPPORTED_DATASOURCES

If set, Renovate will query the merge-confidence JSON API only for datasources that are part of this list. The expected value for this environment variable is a JSON array of strings.

RENOVATE_X_PLATFORM_VERSION

Specify this string for Renovate to skip API checks and provide GitLab/Bitbucket server version directly. Particularly useful with GitLab's CI_JOB_TOKEN to authenticate Renovate or to reduce API calls for Bitbucket.

Read platform details to learn why we need the server version on GitLab.

If set, Renovate will rewrite GitHub Enterprise Server's pagination responses to use the endpoint URL from the Renovate config.

Note

For the GitHub Enterprise Server platform only.

RENOVATE_X_REPO_CACHE_FORCE_LOCAL

If set, Renovate will persist repository cache locally after uploading to S3.

RENOVATE_X_S3_ENDPOINT

If set, Renovate will use this string as the endpoint when instantiating the AWS S3 client.

RENOVATE_X_S3_PATH_STYLE

If set, Renovate will enable forcePathStyle when instantiating the AWS S3 client.

Whether to force path style URLs for S3 objects (e.g., https://s3.amazonaws.com// instead of https://.s3.amazonaws.com/)

Source: AWS S3 documentation - Interface BucketEndpointInputConfig

RENOVATE_X_SQLITE_PACKAGE_CACHE

If set, Renovate will use SQLite as the backend for the package cache. Don't combine with redisUrl, Redis would be preferred over SQlite.

RENOVATE_X_SUPPRESS_PRE_COMMIT_WARNING

Suppress the pre-commit support warning in PR bodies.

RENOVATE_X_YARN_PROXY

Configure global Yarn proxy settings if HTTP proxy environment variables are detected.