fix: automate tested dependency updates

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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

• Chores
  • Improved automated dependency tracking for Helm charts, images, packages, examples, templates, and tests.
  • Expanded pull request checks to detect changes across all workflow configurations and dependency settings.
  • Added automated version-tracking metadata for Gateway API chart dependencies.
  • Updated dependency version constraints to consistently use caret notation while preserving major-version compatibility limits.
  • Excluded fixture files from automated dependency updates to reduce unnecessary changes.

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• apis/gatewayapistacks/configuration.yaml

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Renovate matching rules, dependency annotations, version constraints, and ignored paths were updated. The pull request workflow now detects changes to all workflow files and renovate.json.

Changes

Dependency automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Renovate configuration and update policies renovate.json	Custom managers now match caret constraints, target xpkg. registries, require specific annotations, and ignore fixture paths.
Annotated chart references and dependency constraints examples/gatewayapistacks/standard.yaml, functions/render/000-state-init.yaml.gotmpl, tests/test-render/main.k, upbound.yaml, README.md	Gateway API chart references receive Renovate Helm annotations. Crossplane dependency constraints now use ^v0 and ^v1.
Workflow path matching .github/workflows/on-pr.yaml	The pull request workflow triggers for changes under .github/workflows/** and for changes to renovate.json.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 04a29

The PR expands automated dependency tracking and automerge behavior, but one extraction pattern may miss runtime chart updates and existing Docker-tag and version-range mismatches may cause missed or divergent dependency updates. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded automation risks.

🚥 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 summarizes the main change: automating tested dependency updates through Renovate configuration and dependency constraint changes.
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.)

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Inline comments:
In `@renovate.json`:
- Around line 110-111: Add "versioningTemplate": "docker" to the Docker regex
manager configuration that contains the package declaration match, ensuring
Docker tags use Docker versioning instead of the default semver-coerced
behavior.

In `@upbound.yaml`:
- Line 10: Update the function-auto-ready dependency constraint in upbound.yaml
to use the same >=v0.7.0 lower bound declared in configuration.yaml, keeping
both package constraints aligned.

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Published Crossplane Package

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

Package: ghcr.io/hops-ops/gateway-api-stack:pr-8-ccd4a192d4464faba8c9a08c5fcb7902101836e5

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In `@renovate.json`:
- Line 118: Update the Renovate regex alternative for the default value in the
dependency extraction pattern to allow an optional colon, preserving support for
both “default:” and “default” forms used by templates.

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