Dependabot failed to update your dependencies The following git repository was unreachable and caused the update to fail: terraform-azurerm-storageaccount. Dependabot can't update dependency files that reference private git repositories owned by other accounts. Please consider using a git registry.

[suji55]

Wondering if someone is able to help, i have created a secret on the private github repo under Dependabot secrets and on the repo when dependabot is meant to run, but im getting the error below. i'm not sure what i might be missing or i have done incorrectly.

this error when i try to run dependabot

"Dependabot failed to update your dependencies The following git repository was unreachable and caused the update to fail: terraform-azurerm-storageaccount. Dependabot can't update dependency files that reference private git repositories owned by other accounts. Please consider using a git registry."

dependabot.yml file is below

version: 2

registries:
github:
type: git
url: "https://github.com"
username: "x-access-token"
password: "${{secrets.DEPENDABOT_SECRET}}"

updates:

• package-ecosystem: "terraform"
  directory: "/Infrastructure"
  schedule:
  interval: "daily"
  registries: # This rule tells Dependabot to use the "github" registry
  • github