add renovate

[PrashantR30]

Description

Adding Renovate so to automate the checks and updates packages dependencies in the embedded-bins/Makefiles.variables

Fixes # (issue)

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update

How Has This Been Tested?

• Manual test
• Auto test added

The version of the packages version were modified to an earlier version and renovate was run https://github.com/PrashantR30/go_app_3/pulls and we could see the checks were done and PR created for new versions of the depencencies

Checklist:

• My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• My commit messages are signed-off
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules
• I have checked my code and corrected any misspellings

[twz123]

Thanks for looking into this! Unfortunately, it's not that easy to generate proper version bumps for most of the stuff in the Makefiles. I'd like to start with something really simple first, and then add more and more stuff to it. How about starting with just Alpine (as I think this is the only one that can be done by solely incrementing stuff in the Makefile), so that we have the skeleton and a simple example, and then add other stuff to it in individual PRs? I imagine that we need to restructure things a bit on a case by case basis for automatic version bumps to be working reliably.

[PrashantR30]

Thanks @twz123, I'll update the PR to focus on Renovate on-boarding and Alpine only. Once that's in place, we can add other dependencies gradually in separate PRs. Appreciate the guidance!

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[twz123]

Just remembering that we distinguish between the full Alpine version (x.y.z) and only the major/minor part (x.y), so I think we need to augment this?