Rhys Arkins joined the show to talk about automating dependency updates using Renovate.

Renovate is an open source tool to keep source code dependencies up-to-date using automated Pull Requests.

We talked about who’s using it, the languages and environments that are supported, self-hosted vs SaaS and how that plays into supporting this open source, auto-merging, being a GitHub App and in the GitHub Marketplace, and building this as a business on someone else’s platform.