Support for Docker compose files

[greysteil]

From @armin-joellenbeck on December 23, 2017 9:21

Knowing when new Docker images are published would be helpful when the are used in a Docker compose file too.

Just like #20, with the file docker-compose.yml instead of Dockerfile.

Copied from original issue: dependabot/feedback#66

[greysteil]

👍 for this, and should be relatively straightforward. A couple of things I want to get to first, but I'm definitely game for adding this to Dependabot at some point!

[victorcerutti]

Hi,
This would be a really good addition, is this still going to happen someday ?

Thanks in advance

[greysteil]

I hope so, yes! This is another one that @hmarr owns on our side, but he's very busy scaling Dependabot up to 100m repos!

[bkaid]

@stalebot please leave this open - hoping it gets implemented

[njfamirm]

@alimd, I recommend reading through all of the above comments for a few different workarounds. My comment above is, in my opinion, a fairly robust workaround: #390 (comment)

Thanks, @banesullivan. This can work as a temporary solution.

[njfamirm]

Here's a pointer to the Renovate code that could jump-start a Developer in to making this work on Dependabot.

@mountainash Thank you, but we currently use Dependabot. Switching to another tool would involve a time investment.

[njfamirm]

👍 for this, and should be relatively straightforward. A couple of things I want to get to first, but I'm definitely game for adding this to Dependabot at some point!

@greysteil is any plan for support this? or use another tool?

[greysteil]

Not sure - I haven't worked on Dependabot for a few years now. @jeffwidman might know?

[jeffwidman]

Unfortunately I'm also no longer on the Dependabot maintainer team so have no additional insight into this.

[kevinquillen]

The only solution for me was just using Renovate for everything, either self hosted or as the free GitHub App.

[marchershey]

So I'm guessing we're all jumping ship and boarding Renovate? :P

[PythonCoderAS]

Is this still planned?

[aaiezza]

Would definitely love this!
I have the PR ready to go 🙂

version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "maven"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "daily"

  - package-ecosystem: "docker"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

  - package-ecosystem: "docker-compose"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

  - package-ecosystem: "docker"
    directory: "/kubernetes/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

  - package-ecosystem: "docker"
    directory: "/postman/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

[abdulapopoola]

Hello everyone,

I apologize for the lack of engagement and have some good news to share. Working on docker-compose is on our roadmap for this quarter (Jan - Mar, 2025). We're still finetuning our plans and hope to eventually publish a public roadmap to make this easier.

Thanks for all the help and support!

[abdulapopoola]

Another update, we expect work to start on this in February. @robaiken will be the developer driving this 😄