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+# Renovate Dependency Update Tool
+
+## Introduction
+
+This document outlines the integration of [Renovate](https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate) into Arcade to automate dependency updates.
+Renovate is an automated dependency update tool that generates PRs for updating dependencies from a wide variety of sources.
+
+Renovate is similar to Dependabot in its purpose.
+Dependabot should be used when possible.
+However, Renovate supports a much broader range of [dependency types](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/datasource/), most notably Docker and GitHub releases.
+For example, Renovate can automatically generate a PR to update a referenced Docker image when a newer version is available.
+
+### Example Scenarios
+
+Here are two scenarios demonstrating the usefulness of Renovate automatically making dependency updates:
+
+#### Container Tags
+
+Repos that reference container tags from the [dotnet/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs-docker](https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs-docker) repo need to maintain those tags to ensure they are supported.
+
+This can be as simple as automatically updating to a new major version of Linux distro:
+
+```diff
+-mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet-buildtools/prereqs:debian-11-helix-amd64
++mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet-buildtools/prereqs:debian-12-helix-amd64
+```
+
+Or automatically pinning to the latest version of a tag by it's digest value:
+
+```diff
+-mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet-buildtools/prereqs:debian-12-helix-amd64@sha256:b99da50c4cb425e72ee69c2b8c1fdf99e0f71059aee19798e2f9310141ea48fb
++mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet-buildtools/prereqs:debian-12-helix-amd64@sha256:6bb6fef390e6f09a018f385e346b0fe5999d7662acd84ca2655e9a3c3e622b71
+```
+
+Renovate can detect when these new container images are available and submit PRs to update sources accordingly.
+
+Related issue: [Automatically update image references in consuming repos (#1321)](https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs-docker/issues/1321)
+
+#### GitHub Release
+
+There are many cases where a version of OSS published via GitHub releases is being referenced by a .NET repository.
+Those versions can be kept updated automatically as new releases occur.
+
+For example, there are Dockerfiles in the [dotnet/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs-docker](https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs-docker) repo which reference the LLVM version that can be maintained by having Renovate automatically check for new [LLVM releases](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases).
+
+```diff
+-LLVM_VERSION=19.1.7
++LLVM_VERSION=20.1.0
+```
+
+## Design
+
+### Fork Mode
+
+Protecting GitHub repositories in the dotnet organization from direct access by the Renovate tool is crucial.
+Renovate will be used in fork mode, limiting its permissions to forked repositories.
+This avoids giving write permissions to Renovate on any dotnet repository.
+This means that Renovate acts as though it's any other outside contributor, not requiring any special permissions in the dotnet organization or repositories.
+
+A GitHub bot account, `dotnet-renovate-bot`, is used to manage the Renovate operations.
+This account has the ability to create forks from dotnet repositories, which will be the source of the head branch for PRs that are created.
+The PRs generated by Renovate will be done using this bot account.
+Renovate also handles synchronization from the upstream branch automatically.
+GitHub scopes required by this account: `repo`, `workflow`.
+
+### Repo Usage
+
+Arcade provides an Azure DevOps pipeline YAML job template that repositories should utilize when making use of Renovate.
+This template handles the execution of Renovate, ensuring a standardized approach across all repositories.
+Repositories wishing to make use of Renovate can reference this template from a pipeline YAML file, setting the schedule trigger as desired.
+Consuming repositories are responsible for providing their own [Renovate configuration file](https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/) that describes which dependencies should be updated.
+
+Repositories are in control of how often Renovate will run via the pipeline schedule trigger (once a day, once a week, etc).
+Typically, a pipeline would be configured to update all dependencies at once in which case all dependencies are described in one Renovate config file.
+But in some cases, it may be desired to have certain dependencies updated on a different schedule than others.
+In that case, the repo maintainer would define multiple pipelines with those separate schedules, all configured to run Renovate.
+Importantly, each of those pipelines would need to reference a separate Renovate config file which defines the scope of the updates that will be targeted.
+Lastly, a maintainer is free to manually run the pipeline if an expected update is needed right away.
+
+## Renovate Configuration Patterns
+
+TBD