Rhys Arkins

Rhys Arkins

Rhys Arkins is Vice President of Product Management, responsible for developer solutions at Mend.io. He was the founder of Renovate Bot – an automated tool for software dependency updating, which was acquired by Mend.io in 2019. Rhys is particularly fond of automation and a firm believer in never sending humans to do a machine’s job.

Ruby Bundler Support in Renovate

Rhys Arkins 14 Jan 2019

Developer

Renovate now supports Ruby Bundler! Test out the alpha version and provide feedback for future improvements.

Automating CIRCLECI ORB Updates

Rhys Arkins 17 Dec 2018

Developer

Automate CIRCLECI ORB updates with Renovate for low-risk, predictable versioning. Learn how to easily manage dependencies and stay up to date.

Automating GO Module Dependency Updates

Rhys Arkins 2 Oct 2018

Developer

Learn how to automate GO module dependency updates to save time & ensure consistency with Renovate, an open-source tool.

Automated Dependency Updates For Bitbucket Cloud

Rhys Arkins 29 Aug 2018

Developer

Learn how to use Renovate to keep your repositories up-to-date. Self-hosting instructions provided. Beta support available.

Automated Dependency Updates For KUBERNETES Manifests

Rhys Arkins 4 Aug 2018

Developer

Learn how to configure file matching with Renovate to keep Docker dependencies up-to-date in manifests.

GITHUB Vulnerability Alerts

Rhys Arkins 29 Jul 2018

Developer

Renovate supports raising Pull Requests immediately for any JavaScript or Python package identified as having a vulnerable version by GitHub’s Vulnerability Alerts.

Dependency Deprecation Warnings

Rhys Arkins 5 Jul 2018

Developer

Renovate allows raising issues to warn a repository if it is using deprecated npm packages. This helps prevent that a dependency you are using may never get updates again.