Having a Nomad cluster for my personal needs, I needed a way to automate the tag update with the new releases of images I’m using. I describe a trick with Nomad job definition on how to do it with Renovate or any other dependency update tool.

I spent one week shadowing Wayne Haber, Engineering Director of Secure, Govern and Growth at GitLab. While I’m not a GitLab employee, this opportunity was possible thanks to the openness of GitLab in describing how they work and their amount of information available to the public.