Spec multiple directories for one package-ecosystem

[tobiasehlert]

Hello,

I've a repo with around 50 directories where 25~ have a Terraform provider file specifying a provider version.
As it looks to me, I need to create a separate entry for every modules directory in dependabot.yaml, which results in a very long file. Or maybe that I would add /modules instead and that depedabot would go through all .tf files inside the directories recursively..

E.g. of 3 helm provider modules

  - package-ecosystem: "terraform"
    directory: "/modules/helm_cert_manager"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"
  - package-ecosystem: "terraform"
    directory: "/modules/helm_external_dns"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"
  - package-ecosystem: "terraform"
    directory: "/modules/helm_ingress_nginx"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

This should be much more nice to do this with the 3 helm repos

  - package-ecosystem: "terraform"
    directory:
      - "/modules/helm_cert_manager"
      - "/modules/helm_external_dns"
      - "/modules/helm_ingress_nginx"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

Or maybe even better to be able to use it recursively like this..

  - package-ecosystem: "terraform"
    directory: "/modules"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

And if one provider gets updated, the bump currently is done for every -package-ecosystem so with the combine of directories, it's maybe possible to get one PR for one provider bump and not multiple PRs for the same provider-bump?

[jurre]

It's currently not possible unfortunately @tobiasehlert, but it is on our radar. I can't commit to when we'll be able to look into it, but for some setups the config is a little painful currently :(

I know some people have a little script that generates the config file for them, it's not ideal but it's an improvement. I can try to track down an example of such a script if it'd be useful.

This seems like a combination of #649 or maybe #2178 and #1190

As the issues you describe are already tracked elsewhere, I'm going to close this out.