mintmaker

MintMaker

MintMaker automates dependency updates for Konflux components. It is a Kubernetes operator that runs Renovate via Tekton PipelineRun jobs when a DependencyUpdateCheck custom resource is created. Images are published on quay.io/konflux-ci/mintmaker.

How it works

1. Konflux creates a DependencyUpdateCheck (DUC) CR in the mintmaker namespace.
2. MintMaker finds Konflux Component resources (all clusters, or filtered by namespace/application/component in the DUC CR spec).
3. For each enabled component and branch, it creates a Tekton PipelineRun that runs the Renovate image.
4. Renovate opens or updates pull requests on the component’s Git repository.

Supported Git hosts: GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo. See docs/architecture.md for credentials and flow.

Documentation

Quick start (local cluster)

Default image: quay.io/konflux-ci/mintmaker:latest (override with IMG=...).

make docker-build docker-push IMG=<registry>/mintmaker:tag
make install
make deploy IMG=<registry>/mintmaker:tag
kubectl apply -k config/samples/

Uninstall:

kubectl delete -k config/samples/
make undeploy
make uninstall

See docs/contributing.md for prerequisites, all make targets, and local development details.

Contributing

See docs/contributing.md for how to build, test, and open a pull request.

Maintainers: .github/CODEOWNERS.

Release process

• Automated release workflow
• Manual / stage release steps

License

Copyright contributors to the MintMaker project.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE.