OSS-licensed orgs can request increased resources on Mend Renovate Community Cloud

[justo-mend]

Tell us more.

Orgs running Renovate using the free service provided by Mend Renovate Community Cloud are granted limited resources. (See documentation here.) Some jobs might fail due to memory, disk or timeout limits.

OSS-licensed orgs that are running Renovate on Mend Renovate Community Cloud can apply for increased resources (including memory, disk space, timeouts) so that jobs will be more likely to run to completion and not fail due to resource limits.

If you would like to apply for increased resources for an OSS-licensed org, please create a “Mend Hosted Request” Discussion and tell us which Org you would like to request increased resources for. Note: It will help if you can provide evidence that the org is an Open Source project.

Please note: acceptance is at the discretion of Mend.io.

[jamietanna]

FAQs for Open Source projects migrating to back Mend-hosted apps

As part of our support of Open Source projects with the Community (OSS) plan (#33617) that we've recently proactively upgraded projects to, I've had some discussions with Open Source projects who've ended up self-hosting for a few reasons.

For a number of projects, they have a split of Mend-hosted and self-hosted Renovate deployments.

To help consider whether it's worth centralising on only Mend-hosted (so we can handle the scaling + caching for you), the following FAQ covers some key questions projects have had while considering this.

"We primarily moved to self-hosted Renovate, so we could run postUpgradeTasks"

A common need for projects is to execute commands after Renovate has updated a dependency - for instance to update generated files, or Helm documentation - using postUpgradeTasks.

This historically not allowed on Mend-hosted infrastructure, but recently, we're happy providing an allowlisting of commands for projects on the Community (OSS) plan (via allowedCommands).

If you're a project looking to migrate back to Mend-hosted infrastructure, and need to run postUpgradeTasks, raise a Mend-hosted Request, and we can look at what command(s) you need, so we can allowlist them.