Push Version Changes

When you Version Everything you need a way to pull dependent versions into your git repositories.

Using the push model means that as you create a new versioned release of an artifact (library, binary, image, chart or whatever) you generate the necessary Pull Requests in your downstream repositories to upgrade to use this version.

We do this in Jenkins X using the updatebot plugin as part of a release pipeline. The go-plugin release pipelines pipelines have a promote-release which uses the updatebot plugin to promote the new version to other git repositories. Here are some examples:

• the jenkins-x/lighthouse repository has this .jx/updatebot.yaml to update the version stream on a release
• the jx-gitops repository has this .jx/updatebot.yaml to update the plugin in the jx cli repository

Creating Pull Requests to modify versions means the team looking after the repository can decide when and how to merge the Pull Request; e.g. periodically or in quiet times when there are no serious production issues to resolve.

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