Working with Dependabot

Guidance and recommendations for working with Dependabot, such as managing pull requests raised by Dependabot, using GitHub Actions with Dependabot, and troubleshooting Dependabot errors.

Automating Dependabot with GitHub Actions

Examples of how you can use GitHub Actions to automate common Dependabot related tasks.

Configuring multi-ecosystem updates for Dependabot

Learn how to configure Dependabot to group updates across different ecosystems so that you receive a single, consolidated pull request per group instead of one pull request for each ecosystem.

Dependabot options reference

Detailed information for all the options you can use to customize how Dependabot maintains your repositories.

Setting up Dependabot to run on self-hosted action runners using the Actions Runner Controller

You can configure the Actions Runner Controller to run Dependabot on self-hosted runners.

Setting up Dependabot to run on github-hosted action runners using the Azure Private Network

You can configure an Azure Virtual Network (VNET) to run Dependabot on GitHub-hosted runners.