Unable to do Renovate Installation Using Helm

Question

I am using official Helm charts for RenovateBot to run as a Cronjob and it should work with Self hosted Gitlab Repository https://github.com/renovatebot/helm-charts

Here is my values.yaml

renovate:
  enabled: true 

  image:  
    tag: "36.107.1"
  platform: gitlab

  gitlab:
    url:  "https://gitlab.apps.abc.hodomain.local/"
    privateToken: "git-renovate-token"
  

  cronjob:
    schedule: "* * * * * "
    concurrencyPolicy: Forbid 

But getting error

abc@IN-MRP6T0V6YW chart % helm upgrade --install renovate . -n ddcdevopstools --dry-run Release "renovate" does not exist. Installing it now. Error: execution error at (renovatebot/charts/renovate/templates/config.yaml:20:8): A valid .Values.renovate.config entry is required if existingConfigFile is not specified!

Can someone suggest best way to easily deploy renovte which work with self host Gitlab and for all repos . Any suggestions are welcome

Answer 1

I see the problem quite clearly through this message

A valid .Values.renovate.config entry is required if existingConfigFile is not specified!

The .Values.renovate.config parameter is required and you cannot leave it blank. So, your values.yaml config file will look like this

renovate:
  enabled: true 
  config: "<enter your value>"
...

Or you can omit required function from the helm template file.

More details here.