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@@ -174,3 +174,133 @@ You should save and test out this script manually first, and add it to cron once
 See
 [deployment docs](https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/master/docs/deployment.md)
 for details.
+
+## Kubernetes for Gitlab, using Git over SSH
+
+This section describes how to use git binary with ssh for Gitlab, to avoid API shortcomings.
+
+You need to first create a ssh key, then add the public part to Gitlab (see this [guide](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ssh/))
+
+Then, you need to create the secret to add the ssh key, and the following config to your container
+
+```
+host gitlab.com
+  HostName gitlab.com
+  StrictHostKeyChecking no
+  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
+  User git
+```
+
+To easily create the secret, you can do the following (see [docs](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/#use-case-pod-with-ssh-keys))
+
+```
+kubectl create secret generic ssh-key-secret --from-file=config=/path/to/config --from-file=id_rsa=/path/to/.ssh/id_rsa --from-file=id_rsa.pub=/path/to/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
+```
+
+It creates something like this
+
+```
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  config: aG9zdCBnaXRsYWIuY29tCiAgSG9zdE5hbWUgZ2l0bGFiLmNvbQogIFN0cmljdEhvc3RLZXlDaGVja2luZyBubwogIElkZW50aXR5RmlsZSB+Ly5zc2gvaWRfcnNhCiAgVXNlciBnaXQ=
+  id_rsa: <base64String>
+  id_rsa.pub: <base64String>
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: ssh-key-secret
+  namespace: <namespace>
+```
+
+Then you just need to add Git author, and mount volumes
+The final configuration should look like something like this :
+
+```
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Namespace
+metadata:
+  name: <namespace, for example renovate>
+
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: renovate-env
+  namespace: <namespace>
+type: Opaque
+stringData:
+  renovate-platform: 'gitlab'
+  renovate-endpoint: 'https://gitlab.com/api/v4'
+  renovate-token: <Gitlab Token>
+  github-token: <Github Token>
+  renovate-autodiscover: 'false'
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  config: aG9zdCBnaXRsYWIuY29tCiAgSG9zdE5hbWUgZ2l0bGFiLmNvbQogIFN0cmljdEhvc3RLZXlDaGVja2luZyBubwogIElkZW50aXR5RmlsZSB+Ly5zc2gvaWRfcnNhCiAgVXNlciBnaXQ=
+  id_rsa: <base64String>
+  id_rsa.pub: <base64String>
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: ssh-key-secret
+  namespace: <namespace>
+---
+apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
+kind: CronJob
+metadata:
+  name: renovate
+  namespace: <namespace>
+spec:
+  schedule: '@hourly'
+  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
+  jobTemplate:
+    spec:
+      template:
+        spec:
+          volumes:
+            - name: ssh-key-volume
+              secret:
+                secretName: ssh-key-secret
+          containers:
+            - name: renovate
+              # Update this to the latest available and then enable Renovate on the manifest
+              image: renovate/renovate:14.1.0
+              volumeMounts:
+                - name: ssh-key-volume
+                  readOnly: true
+                  mountPath: "/home/ubuntu/.ssh"
+              args:
+                - <repository>
+              # Environment Variables
+              env:
+                - name: RENOVATE_GIT_AUTHOR
+                  value: <Git Author, with format 'User <email@email.com>'>
+                - name: RENOVATE_GIT_FS
+                  value: ssh
+                - name: RENOVATE_PLATFORM
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      key: renovate-platform
+                      name: renovate-env
+                - name: RENOVATE_ENDPOINT
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      key: renovate-endpoint
+                      name: renovate-env
+                - name: RENOVATE_TOKEN
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      key: renovate-token
+                      name: renovate-env
+                - name: GITHUB_COM_TOKEN
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      key: github-token
+                      name: renovate-env
+                - name: RENOVATE_AUTODISCOVER
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      key: renovate-autodiscover
+                      name: renovate-env
+          restartPolicy: Never
+```