add dependabot golang base image updates and pin lint to the go.mod Go version - #2890
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Signed-off-by: Harsh Rawat <harshrawat@microsoft.com>
The lint job used the newest stable Go while golangci-lint is pinned, so a new Go release could outpace the linter and break CI. Install Go for the lint job from go.mod so the linter's toolchain stays aligned with the version the module targets. Build/test jobs still use the latest Go. Signed-off-by: Harsh Rawat <harshrawat@microsoft.com>
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Summary
.github/dependabot.ymlto also keep thegolangDocker base image in the test Dockerfiles current (digest/patch bumps only; major/minor ignored), matching the existingwindows/nanoserverandwindows/servercorehandling.golangci-lintagainst the Go version fromgo.modinstead of the newest stable Go, so a new Go release can't outpace the pinned linter and break CI. Build/test jobs still use the latest Go.Testing
Ran Dependabot locally against the updated config; it proposes the expected
golangupdate.