Versions and Renovate Management

Versions live in kubernetes/platform/versions.env. Renovate's custom regex manager in .github/renovate.json5 parses # renovate: annotations on the line above each entry. Flux substitutes ${var} references into HelmRelease specs at reconcile time.

Annotation Syntax

# renovate: datasource=<source> depName=<name> [packageName=<pkg>] [extractVersion=<regex>] [registryUrl=<url>] [versioning=<scheme>]
variable_name=<value>

Key ordering is fixed: datasource, depName, packageName, extractVersion, registryUrl, versioning. Rearranging keys causes Renovate to silently skip the entry.

Field	Required	Purpose
`datasource`	Yes	Where Renovate looks (`helm`, `docker`, `github-releases`, `github-tags`)
`depName`	Yes	Human-readable name shown in Renovate PRs
`packageName`	No	Registry-specific lookup path (OCI registries, GitHub repos)
`extractVersion`	No	Regex to transform upstream version (e.g., strip `v` prefix)