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Greg Kurz 5009fabde4 release: Keep it draft until all artifacts have been published
The automated release workflow starts with the creation of the release in
GitHub. This is followed by the build and upload of the various artifacts,
which can be very long (like hours). During this period, the release appears
to be fully available in https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/
even though it lacks all the artifacts. This might be confusing for users
or automation consuming the release.

Create the release as draft and clear the draft flag when all jobs are
done. This ensure that the release will only be tagged and made public
when it is fully usable.

If some job fails because of network timeout or any other transient
error, the correct action is to restart the failed jobs until they
eventually all succeed. This is by far the quicker path to complete
the release process.

If the workflow is *canceled* for some reason, the draft release is left
behind. A new run of the workflow will create a brand new draft release
with the same name (not an issue with GitHub). The draft release from
the previous run should be manually deleted. This step won't be automated
as it looks safer to leave the decision to a human.

[1] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases

Fixes #9064 - part VI

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
2024-03-26 14:48:05 +01:00
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Release information

Introduction

This directory contains information of the process and tools used for creating Kata Containers releases.

Create a Kata Containers release

See the release documentation.

Release tools

release.sh

This script is used by GitHub actions in the release file from the kata-containers/kata-containers repository to handle the various steps of the release process.

generate_vendor.sh

This script is used by release.sh to generate a tarball with all the cargo vendored code.