fix: automate tested dependency updates

[patrickleet]

Summary

• Track Crossplane package constraints and runtime chart/image versions with Renovate.
• Loosen upbound.yaml requirements to major-only ranges and group AWS provider-family updates.
• Enable minor and patch automerge only after PR checks pass; major updates remain manual.
• Ensure dependency changes anywhere under .github/workflows/** trigger the full PR workflow.

Validation

• Renovate configuration validation passed across all 42 active Hops configurations.
• Local Renovate extraction found valid package/runtime values and major-only Crossplane ranges.
• git diff --check and YAML/JSON parsing passed across all 42 repositories.
• up project build could not run because the local Docker daemon is stopped.

GitKB task: 01a04f21-8382-72f1-9503-7d1e40c1d54d

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Automation

  • Pull request checks now run when workflow configuration or dependency configuration changes.
  • Dependency tracking now covers Helm charts and runtime dependencies across examples, templates, schemas, and tests.
  • Minor and patch updates can be automatically merged after checks pass; major updates require review.

• Compatibility

  • Upbound provider and function dependencies now use capped major-version ranges for predictable upgrades.

• Maintenance

  • Added dependency tracking for Istio charts used in examples and rendering tests.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request updates Renovate policies and annotations, changes Crossplane dependency constraints to caret notation, and expands the pull request workflow path filter to include Renovate configuration and workflow files.

Changes

Dependency automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Renovate policy and dependency discovery renovate.json	Renovate now separates major updates from minor and patch automerge rules. Its custom managers scan annotated dependencies across schemas, examples, templates, and tests. Crossplane package matching, replacement templates, ignored paths, and automerge settings were updated.
Runtime dependency annotations examples/istiostacks/standard.yaml, functions/render/000-state-init.yaml.gotmpl, tests/test-render/main.k	Renovate annotations identify the Istio base, istiod, and ztunnel Helm dependencies.
Crossplane dependency constraints upbound.yaml, README.md	The provider constraints now use ^v1. The function-auto-ready constraint now uses ^v0 in the project specification and prerequisites.

Pull request workflow triggering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow path filter .github/workflows/on-pr.yaml	Changes to renovate.json or any file under .github/workflows/ now trigger the pull request workflow.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f2793

The PR broadens dependency ranges and enables automated updates, which could allow a function dependency below its documented minimum and cause runtime incompatibility. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to correct or accept that constraint.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: automating tested dependency updates with Renovate.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch fix/renovate-production-dependencies

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Inline comments:
In `@upbound.yaml`:
- Line 18: Update the version constraint in upbound.yaml from >=v0 to >=v0.6.0
so it matches the documented prerequisite in README.md; do not broaden the
accepted version range unless compatibility is verified and the prerequisite
documentation is updated accordingly.

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Published Crossplane Package

The following Crossplane package was published as part of this PR:

Package: ghcr.io/hops-ops/istio-stack:pr-36-6a12722aa4c1c5ae0019643f5f0ef212c74bf085

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Inline comments:
In `@renovate.json`:
- Line 97: Update the generic regex manager pattern in renovate.json to exclude
ghcr.io/hops-ops repositories while preserving matching for other registry URLs;
leave the dedicated manager’s handling unchanged so these references are
processed only as github-releases dependencies.

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