Disabling FluxCD image updates?

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github, 40.57.1

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What would be the cleanest way to disable image updates of Flux components and instead only rely on the regular Flux version upgrades, which renovate also supports?

The issue is that when newer major version of Flux is released, it might introduce changes to CRDs. As components which belong to newer release are released before new version of Flux itself gets released, renovate bumps the images, thus causing breakages due to API changes.

Ideally, image updates for Flux2 should be disabled by default due to this issue. And response from Flux developers:

That's our official release process. We release all the controllers before flux2. flux2 imports the controllers, that's the correct order to do it. You or renovate did not upgrade Flux correctly. One doesn't simply bump the Flux controller images.

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Hi there,

Please locate the debug message packageFiles with updates in your logs and paste the contents here. Depending on your question, we may need the full list of packages or only one.

If you self-host Renovate: make sure you run Renovate with LOG_LEVEL=debug to get the debug log messages! Next, open the debug-level logs and search for packageFiles with updates. This text marks the start of a structured log message that shows every package file, dependency, and update that Renovate found.

Find the relevant dependency/dependencies in the log message, and copy/paste those parts into this discussion. If you do not know which bits we need, you can copy/paste the full log message.

Read the Renovate docs, Troubleshooting to learn more about getting the docs, and getting the correct type of logs.

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