From fe40c375097948e59dd1e2bc5308034b6eb5f39c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eoin O'Shaughnessy <e.oshaughnessy@f5.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:38:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] enable auto-merge for dependabot

---
 .github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml b/.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..00cf5b0db1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: Dependabot auto-merge
+on: pull_request_target
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  dependabot:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'dependabot[bot]' }}
+    permissions:
+      pull-requests: write
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Dependabot metadata
+        id: dependabot-metadata
+        uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@5e5f99653a5b510e8555840e80cbf1514ad4af38 # v2.1.0
+
+      - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
+        run: gh pr merge --auto --squash "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NGINX_PAT }}