Can Renovate be made to work without an onboarding PR?

[nekochanell]

Hi.

I have a Gitlab organization with hundreds of repos. I want Renovate to run on all of them. My current onboarding config is

onboardingConfig: { // This will be placed into repositories without config
    extends: [
		"config:base",
		":disableDependencyDashboard"
	],
  },

but I'd like to make it so Renovate can run without an onboarding PR. Is that possible? All the onboarding PR does is add this inside the repo

{
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
  "extends": [
    "config:base",
    ":disableDependencyDashboard"
  ]
}

although I think it redundant.

I want all repos to use the same config, which I have in the root of the repository where I run Renovate from. This would save me having to merge hundreds of onboarding PRs.

[rarkins]

Sure, configure onboarding=false and requireConfig=false. Make sure all config you want is in the config.js of the bot.

[hemeroc]

Hi, where would I need to place this when using Renovate OnPremise?
I would like to have this as organization wide settings.

[rarkins]

These can be configured in a config.js file, or env (e.g. RENOVATE_ONBOARDING=false, RENOVATE_REQUIRE_CONFIG=false)

[cjtim]

@rarkins So if i want to run with extends this's config.js looks like right? am i correct

 module.exports = {
        requireConfig: "optional",
        onboarding: false,
        extends: [
            "local>test/renovate-config-templates",
            "local>test/renovate-config-templates:scala",
            "local>test/renovate-config-templates:global",
        ]

[rarkins]

Yes, then it will run on repos without onboarding, and with or without a config file

[rarkins]

@Alexander-Shukaev this discussion is already answered, please start your own