feat(monitoring): replace scrape dump with vmagent

.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -294,6 +294,11 @@ jobs:
           echo "server-side dry-run: ${#manifests[@]} manifests, ${#kustomize_apps[@]} kustomize apps"
           failed=0
           for m in ${manifests[@]+"${manifests[@]}"}; do
+            if [[ "$m" == "prometheus-stack/k8s/vmagent.yaml" ]] \
+              && ! kubectl get crd vmagents.operator.victoriametrics.com >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+              echo "skip server-side dry-run until the VictoriaMetrics Operator CRD is installed: $m"
+              continue
+            fi
             if ! out="$(kubectl apply --dry-run=server -f "$m" 2>&1)"; then
               failed=1
               echo "::error file=${m}::$(printf '%s' "$out" | head -1)"

.gitea/workflows/deploy-lib.sh

@@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ rollback_workloads() {
 # have to be declared as custom.regex managers in renovate/renovate.json.
 HELM_RELEASES=(
   "prometheus-stack|prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack|prometheus|86.2.3|prometheus-stack/k8s/grafana-values.yaml|prometheus-stack/k8s/active"
+  "victoria-operator|victoriametrics/victoria-metrics-operator|prometheus|0.68.1|prometheus-stack/k8s/victoria-operator-values.yaml|prometheus-stack/k8s/active"
   "loki|grafana/loki|prometheus|7.3.0|loki/k8s/loki-values.yaml|loki/k8s/active"
   "alloy|grafana/alloy|prometheus|1.12.1|loki/k8s/alloy-values.yaml|loki/k8s/active"
   "reloader|stakater/reloader|reloader|2.2.17|reloader/k8s/reloader-values.yaml|reloader/k8s/active"
@@ -557,6 +558,7 @@ helm_repo_for() {
     prometheus-community/*) echo "prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts" ;;
     grafana/*) echo "grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts" ;;
     stakater/*) echo "stakater https://stakater.github.io/stakater-charts" ;;
+    victoriametrics/*) echo "victoriametrics https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts" ;;
   esac
 }