diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
   * [loki](https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/)
   * [keel](https://keel.sh)
   * [reloader](https://github.com/stakater/Reloader)
-  * [removate-bot](https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate) (see [README.renovate.md](README.renovate.md))
 
 ## Installation (k3s + baseline)
 
diff --git a/README.renovate.md b/README.renovate.md
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-# Renovate Bot
-
-The baseline only applies the basic settings for renovate, but does not include any credentials or platform configuration.
-
-Create a new secret to provide the necessary settings:
-
-```
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-  name: renovate-env
-  namespace: renovate
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-  GITHUB_COM_TOKEN: 'your-github-token-here'
-  RENOVATE_PLATFORM: 'gitea'
-  RENOVATE_ENDPOINT: 'https://git.smsvc.net/'
-  RENOVATE_TOKEN: 'your-api-token-here'
-  LOG_LEVEL: info
-```
-
-You must set at least `RENOVATE_PLATFORM`, `RENOVATE_ENDPOINT` and `RENOVATE_TOKEN`.  
-You can set any configuration that can be set by environment variable (see References).
-
----
-
-References:
-
-- [Supported Platforms](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/platform/)
-- [Self-Hosted configuration](https://docs.renovatebot.com/self-hosted-configuration/)
-- [GitHub.com token for release notes](https://docs.renovatebot.com/getting-started/running/#githubcom-token-for-release-notes)
-- [Log debug levels](https://docs.renovatebot.com/troubleshooting/#log-debug-levels)
diff --git a/bin/start_renovate_bot.sh b/bin/start_renovate_bot.sh
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-#! /bin/bash
-
-## Author: Sebastian Mark
-## CC-BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de)
-## for civil use only
-
-## start renovate cronjob manually
-## Usage: start_renovate_bot.sh [--debug] [group/repo group/repo ...]
-
-set -e
-
-NS="renovate"
-CRONJOBNAME="renovate-bot"
-JOBNAME="renovate-bot-manual-$(openssl rand -hex 3)"
-
-TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
-
-## create a single job from cronjob
-kubectl -n $NS --dry-run=client create job $JOBNAME --from=cronjob/$CRONJOBNAME -o yaml >$TMPFILE
-
-## add debug env var
-if [[ "$1" == "--debug" ]]; then
-  kubectl patch --local -f $TMPFILE --type='json' --patch='[
-  {
-    "op": "add",
-    "path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/env/-",
-    "value": { "name": "LOG_LEVEL", "value": "debug"}
-  }
-  ]' -o yaml | sponge $TMPFILE
-  shift
-fi
-
-## limit job to passed repo(s)
-if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
-  ## disable autodiscover
-  kubectl patch --local -f $TMPFILE --type='json' --patch='[
-  {
-    "op": "add",
-    "path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/args",
-    "value": ["--autodiscover=false"]
-  }
-  ]' -o yaml | sponge $TMPFILE
-
-  ## add each repo as single argument
-  for REPO in "$@"; do
-    kubectl patch --local -f $TMPFILE --type='json' --patch='[
-    {
-      "op": "add",
-      "path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/args/-",
-      "value": "'$REPO'"
-    }
-    ]' -o yaml | sponge $TMPFILE
-  done
-fi
-
-## create job
-kubectl -n $NS apply -f $TMPFILE
-rm $TMPFILE
-
-## wait for corrosponding pod to be ready
-PODNAME=$(kubectl -n $NS get pods --selector=job-name=$JOBNAME --no-headers -o custom-columns=":metadata.name")
-kubectl -n $NS wait --for=condition=Ready pod/$PODNAME --timeout=3m
-
-## show job logs
-echo "waiting for logs...."
-echo
-kubectl -n $NS logs -f job/$JOBNAME
-echo
-
-echo "saving log to /tmp/${JOBNAME}.log"
-kubectl -n $NS logs job/$JOBNAME &>/tmp/${JOBNAME}.log
-
-## remove job
-kubectl -n $NS delete job $JOBNAME
diff --git a/k8s-manifests/renovate-bot.jsonnet b/k8s-manifests/renovate-bot.jsonnet
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-local app = import "../_templates/argocd_app.libsonnet";
-
-[
-app + {
-  chart:: "renovate",
-  repo:: "https://docs.renovatebot.com/helm-charts",
-  version:: "36.*",
-  values:: |||
-    fullnameOverride: "renovate-bot"
-    cronjob:
-      schedule: '@daily'
-      concurrencyPolicy: "Forbid"
-    existingSecret: "renovate-env"
-    renovate:
-      persistence:
-        cache:
-          enabled: true
-          storageSize: "128Mi"
-      config: |
-        {
-          "onboardingConfigFileName": ".renovaterc.json",
-          "onboardingConfig": {"extends":["local>infrastructure/renovate-config"]},
-          "autodiscover": true
-        }
-  |||
-}
-]