diff --git a/kubernetes/code/renovate/config.json b/kubernetes/code/renovate/config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3cf93e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/code/renovate/config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "platform": "github",
+  "repositories": ["vhaudiquet/homeprod"],
+  "autodiscover": false,
+  "allowedPostUpgradeCommands": ["^sops"],
+  "allowedPostUpgradeCommandsEnv": ["^SOPS_"],
+  "onboardingConfigFileName": "renovate.json",
+  "dryRun": false,
+  "binarySource": "docker",
+  "schedule": ["every weekend"]
+}
diff --git a/kubernetes/code/renovate/cronjob.yaml b/kubernetes/code/renovate/cronjob.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c038b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/code/renovate/cronjob.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Self-hosted Renovate runner.
+#
+# Runs the managed `renovatebot/renovate` image on a schedule against the
+# `vhaudiquet/homeprod` repo (see config.json). Because we need to run SOPS
+# during postUpgradeTasks (re-encrypting values.yaml), Renovate cannot run on
+# the Mend-hosted app — it must be self-hosted with the sops command allow-listed
+# (see config.json -> allowedPostUpgradeCommands) and the SOPS PGP private key
+# loaded (renovate-gpg secret below).
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: CronJob
+metadata:
+  name: renovate
+  namespace: renovate
+spec:
+  # Run every hour; Renovate's own "schedule": ["every weekend"] (config.json)
+  # gates when PRs are actually created.
+  schedule: "42 * * * *"
+  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
+  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 2
+  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 4
+  jobTemplate:
+    spec:
+      backoffLimit: 0
+      template:
+        spec:
+          restartPolicy: Never
+          tolerations:
+            - key: CriticalAddonsOnly
+              operator: Exists
+          containers:
+            - name: renovate
+              image: renovatebot/renovate:latest
+              envFrom:
+                - secretRef:
+                    name: renovate-secrets
+              env:
+                - name: RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE
+                  value: /etc/renovate/config.json
+                - name: LOG_LEVEL
+                  value: info
+              command:
+                - /bin/sh
+                - -ec
+                - |
+                  set -eu
+                  # Import the SOPS PGP private key so rebuild/enable SOPS
+                  # re-encryption in postUpgradeTasks works.
+                  gpg --batch --import /etc/renovate/gpg/git-renovate-gpg.key || true
+                  exec renovate
+              volumeMounts:
+                - name: config
+                  mountPath: /etc/renovate/config.json
+                  subPath: config.json
+                  readOnly: true
+                - name: gpg
+                  mountPath: /etc/renovate/gpg
+                  readOnly: true
+              resources:
+                requests:
+                  cpu: 100m
+                  memory: 384Mi
+                limits:
+                  cpu: 1000m
+                  memory: 1Gi
+          volumes:
+            - name: config
+              configMap:
+                name: renovate-config
+            - name: gpg
+              secret:
+                name: renovate-gpg
diff --git a/kubernetes/code/renovate/git-renovate-gpg.key b/kubernetes/code/renovate/git-renovate-gpg.key
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..918860b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/code/renovate/git-renovate-gpg.key
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# SOPS PGP PRIVATE key for fingerprint DC6910268E657FF70BA7EC289974494E76938DDC
+#
+# PLACEHOLDER — replace with the actual ASCII-armored PRIVATE key used to
+# encrypt .sops.yaml files, then sops-encrypt this file before committing
+# (wrap the whole file as a single value matching the `.*key` regex in
+# .sops.yaml, or store it via the .pre-commit flow). Keep it out of git in
+# plaintext; this is a Secret source.
+#
+# -----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK----- ... -----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
diff --git a/kubernetes/code/renovate/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/code/renovate/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c91c96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/code/renovate/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+namespace: renovate
+resources:
+  - namespace.yaml
+  - cronjob.yaml
+# Scalar Renovate env vars (token, SOPS key fingerprint, ...). Stored as a
+# dotenv file and SOPS-encrypted by the .pre-commit hook (matches .env rule).
+configMapGenerator:
+  - name: renovate-config
+    files:
+      - config.json=config.json
+secretGenerator:
+  - name: renovate-secrets
+    envs:
+      - renovate.env
+  # SOPS PGP private key needed by the renovate runner to re-encrypt
+  # values.yaml during postUpgradeTasks. Mounted into the pod and imported
+  # into the container gpg keyring at startup.
+  - name: renovate-gpg
+    files:
+      - git-renovate-gpg.key
diff --git a/kubernetes/code/renovate/namespace.yaml b/kubernetes/code/renovate/namespace.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec7c378
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/code/renovate/namespace.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Namespace
+metadata:
+  name: renovate
diff --git a/kubernetes/code/renovate/renovate.env b/kubernetes/code/renovate/renovate.env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98a8660
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/code/renovate/renovate.env
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Self-hosted Renovate runtime secrets.
+#
+# FILL THESE IN. This file is SOPS-encrypted on commit by the .pre-commit hook
+# (it matches the `.env` rule in .sops.yaml), and decrypted by kustomize-controller
+# via flux-sops before the Secret is generated.
+
+# Fine-grained/personal access token with read+writes:content and read:issues,
+# read:pull_requests, and contents read/write on vhaudiquet/homeprod so Renovate
+# can open and push PR branches.
+RENOVATE_TOKEN=
+
+# Optional: GitHub token used for public API rate-limit boosting (can be the
+# same as RENOVATE_TOKEN, or a dedicated one).
+GITHUB_COM_TOKEN=
+
+# SOPS master key fingerprint used to (re-)encrypt values.yaml in this repo.
+# Matches the `pgp:` entry in .sops.yaml.
+SOPS_PGP_FP=DC6910268E657FF70BA7EC289974494E76938DDC
diff --git a/kubernetes/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/kustomization.yaml
index 26968ad..7abc7c0 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/kustomization.yaml
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ resources:
   - infrastructure/traefik
   - infrastructure/caddy
   - infrastructure/network/blocky
+  # Code (self-hosted dev tooling)
+  - code/renovate
   # Dev (developer platform)
   - dev/gitea
   - dev/harbor
diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
index 90270df..6a8682b 100644
--- a/renovate.json
+++ b/renovate.json
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@
     "helm-values",
     "helmv3"
   ],
+  "postUpgradeTasks": {
+    "description": "SOPS round-trip on encrypted values.yaml. Renovate has no preUpgrade hook, so the decrypt must happen here: after the tag bump but before commit, decrypt the file, then re-encrypt. Encrypting an already-encrypted file would double-encrypt the existing ENC secret values and corrupt them.",
+    "commands": [
+      "sops -d {{packageFile}} > {{packageFile}}.plain && mv {{packageFile}}.plain {{packageFile}} && sops -e -i {{packageFile}}"
+    ],
+    "fileFilters": [
+      "**/values.yaml"
+    ],
+    "executionMode": "update"
+  },
   "packageRules": [
     {
       "description": "docker-compose updates",