diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yaml b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
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--- a/.github/workflows/main.yaml
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@@ -1,295 +0,0 @@
-name: Publish release tarball
-on: 
-  push: 
-    tags:
-     - '1.*'
-
-jobs:
-  get-artifact-list:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: get the list
-        run: |
-         pushd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
-         tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
-         git checkout $tag
-         popd
-         $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/tools/packaging/artifact-list.sh > artifact-list.txt
-      - name: save-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-          path: artifact-list.txt
-
-  build-kernel:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: get-artifact-list
-    env:
-      buildstr: "install_kernel"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-      - run: |
-         sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install -y flex bison libelf-dev bc iptables
-      - name: build-kernel
-        run: |
-         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
-           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
-           echo "artifact-built=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         else
-           echo "artifact-built=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         fi
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        if: ${{ env.artifact-built }} == 'true'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-static-kernel.tar.gz
-
-  build-experimental-kernel:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: get-artifact-list
-    env:
-      buildstr: "install_experimental_kernel"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-      - run: |
-         sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install -y flex bison libelf-dev bc iptables
-      - name: build-experimental-kernel
-        run: |
-         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
-           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
-           echo "artifact-built=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         else
-           echo "artifact-built=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         fi
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        if: ${{ env.artifact-built }} == 'true'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-static-experimental-kernel.tar.gz
-
-  build-qemu:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: get-artifact-list
-    env:
-      buildstr: "install_qemu"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-      - name: build-qemu
-        run: |
-         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
-           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
-           echo "artifact-built=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         else
-           echo "artifact-built=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         fi
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        if: ${{ env.artifact-built }} == 'true'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-static-qemu.tar.gz
-
-  # Job for building the image
-  build-image:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: get-artifact-list
-    env:
-      buildstr: "install_image"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-      - name: build-image
-        run: |
-         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
-           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
-           echo "artifact-built=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         else
-           echo "artifact-built=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         fi
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        if: ${{ env.artifact-built }} == 'true'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-static-image.tar.gz
-
-  # Job for building firecracker hypervisor
-  build-firecracker:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: get-artifact-list
-    env:
-      buildstr: "install_firecracker"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-      - name: build-firecracker
-        run: |
-         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
-           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
-           echo "artifact-built=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         else
-           echo "artifact-built=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         fi
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        if: ${{ env.artifact-built }} == 'true'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-static-firecracker.tar.gz
-
-  # Job for building cloud-hypervisor
-  build-clh:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: get-artifact-list
-    env:
-      buildstr: "install_clh"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-      - name: build-clh
-        run: |
-         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
-           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
-           echo "artifact-built=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         else
-           echo "artifact-built=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         fi
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        if: ${{ env.artifact-built }} == 'true'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-static-clh.tar.gz
-
-  # Job for building kata components
-  build-kata-components:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: get-artifact-list
-    env:
-      buildstr: "install_kata_components"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifact-list
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: artifact-list
-      - name: build-kata-components
-        run: |
-         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
-           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
-           echo "artifact-built=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         else
-           echo "artifact-built=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-         fi
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        if: ${{ env.artifact-built }} == 'true'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-          path: kata-static-kata-components.tar.gz
-
-  gather-artifacts:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
-    needs: [build-experimental-kernel, build-kernel, build-qemu, build-image, build-firecracker, build-kata-components, build-clh]
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: get-artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: kata-artifacts
-      - name: colate-artifacts
-        run: |
-          $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/gather-artifacts.sh
-      - name: store-artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: release-candidate
-          path: kata-static.tar.xz
-
-  kata-deploy:
-    needs: gather-artifacts
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: get-artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: release-candidate
-      - name: build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci
-        id: build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci
-        run: |
-          tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
-          git clone https://github.com/kata-containers/packaging
-          pushd packaging
-          git checkout $tag
-          pkg_sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
-          popd
-          mv release-candidate/kata-static.tar.xz ./packaging/kata-deploy/kata-static.tar.xz
-          docker build --build-arg KATA_ARTIFACTS=kata-static.tar.xz -t katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:$pkg_sha -t quay.io/kata-containers/kata-deploy-ci:$pkg_sha ./packaging/kata-deploy
-          docker login -u ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} -p ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
-          docker push katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:$pkg_sha
-          docker login -u ${{ secrets.QUAY_DEPLOYER_USERNAME }} -p ${{ secrets.QUAY_DEPLOYER_PASSWORD }} quay.io
-          docker push quay.io/kata-containers/kata-deploy-ci:$pkg_sha
-          echo "::set-output name=PKG_SHA::${pkg_sha}"
-      - name: test-kata-deploy-ci-in-aks
-        uses: ./packaging/kata-deploy/action
-        with:
-          packaging-sha: ${{steps.build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci.outputs.PKG_SHA}}
-        env:
-          PKG_SHA: ${{steps.build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci.outputs.PKG_SHA}}
-          AZ_APPID: ${{ secrets.AZ_APPID }}
-          AZ_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.AZ_PASSWORD }}
-          AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
-          AZ_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_TENANT_ID }}
-      - name: push-tarball
-        run: |
-          # tag the container image we created and push to DockerHub
-          tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
-          docker tag katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:${{steps.build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci.outputs.PKG_SHA}} katadocker/kata-deploy:${tag}
-          docker push katadocker/kata-deploy:${tag}
-
-  upload-static-tarball:
-    needs: kata-deploy
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: download-artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
-        with:
-          name: release-candidate
-      - name: install hub
-        run: |
-          HUB_VER=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hub/releases/latest" | jq -r .tag_name | sed 's/^v//')
-          wget -q -O- https://github.com/github/hub/releases/download/v$HUB_VER/hub-linux-amd64-$HUB_VER.tgz | \
-          tar xz --strip-components=2 --wildcards '*/bin/hub' && sudo mv hub /usr/local/bin/hub
-      - name: push static tarball to github
-        run: |
-          tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
-          tarball="kata-static-$tag-x86_64.tar.xz"
-          repo="https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime.git"
-          mv release-candidate/kata-static.tar.xz "release-candidate/${tarball}"
-          git clone "${repo}"
-          cd runtime
-          echo "uploading asset '${tarball}' to '${repo}' tag: ${tag}"
-          GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GIT_UPLOAD_TOKEN }} hub release edit -m "" -a "../release-candidate/${tarball}" "${tag}"
diff --git a/docs/Release-Process.md b/docs/Release-Process.md
index 903b8875f2..5d6e913e80 100644
--- a/docs/Release-Process.md
+++ b/docs/Release-Process.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 
 ### Check Git-hub Actions
 
-  We make use of [GitHub actions](https://github.com/features/actions) in this [file](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main/.github/workflows/main.yaml) in the `kata-containers/kata-containers` repository to build and upload release artifacts. This action is auto triggered with the above step when a new tag is pushed to the `kata-containers/kata-containers` repository.
+  We make use of [GitHub actions](https://github.com/features/actions) in this [file](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yaml) in the `kata-containers/kata-containers` repository to build and upload release artifacts. This action is auto triggered with the above step when a new tag is pushed to the `kata-containers/kata-containers` repository.
 
   Check the [actions status page](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/actions) to verify all steps in the actions workflow have completed successfully. On success, a static tarball containing Kata release artifacts will be uploaded to the [Release page](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases).