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This repo contains the tooling and infrastructure configurations for creatingKubernetes releases from thekubernetes/kubernetes main repository.

There are several scripts and helpers in this repository a Release Manager willfind useful when managing all kinds of releases (alpha, beta, official, rc)across branches.

Golang-based tools can be built via thecompile-release-tools script.Individual tools can be installed viago install k8s.io/release/cmd/$TOOL@latest.

• Release Creation
• Release Management
  • krel
  • schedule-builder
• Artifact Management
  • kpromo
• End User
  • bom
  • release-notes
  • gcbuilder
  • publish-release
• Legacy
  • push-build.sh
• Contributing

Each of the headings below links to a tool's location.

If you create a new release for this repository, then thegoreleaser GitHub action will attachall available binary artifacts to it automatically. To publish those artifactsto ourk8s-artifacts-sig-release GCS bucket,run the followingkpromocommand for the new$TAG:

kpromo gh \    --org kubernetes \    --repo release \    --bucket k8s-artifacts-sig-release \    --tags$TAG

The release notes can be generated by using therelease-notes tool from this repository, which is alsoavailable as binary artifact:

release-notes \    --org kubernetes \    --repo release \    --required-author"" \    --start-rev$PREVIOUS_TAG \    --end-rev$TAG \    --output release-notes.md

Kubernetesrelease Toolbox: tooling for releasing Kubernetes

Status: Feature Complete

Audience:Release Managers

Details:Documentation

Generate a Markdown schedule for Kubernetes releases.

Status: In Progress

Audience:Release Managers

Details:Documentation

Kubernetes artifactpromotion tooling: tooling for promoting artifacts

Status: In Progress

Audience:Release Managers and subproject maintainersresponsible for promoting file or container artifacts

Details:Documentation

Generate SPDX-compliant Bills of Materials for a softwareproject. Supports reading directories, images, files and more.

Details:Documentation

Scrape GitHub pull requests for release notes.

Status: Feature Complete

Details:Documentation

General purpose tool for triggering Google Cloud Build (GCB) runs withsubstitutions.

Status: Unused

Details:Documentation

A tool to announce software releases. Currently supports updating therelease page on GitHub based on templates and updating release artifacts.

Details:Documentation

Push a CI build of Kubernetes to Google Cloud Storage (GCS).

Status: Deprecated (but still in use)

Audience:Release Managers, Prowjobs

Please seeCONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on how to contribute.