ci: splits release

Author: faiq

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ on:
 
 permissions:
   contents: write # required to write to github release.
+  packages: write
+  actions: write
 
 jobs:
   release:
@@ -42,3 +44,39 @@ jobs:
           PROD_REGISTRY: "ghcr.io/nutanix-cloud-native"
           GH_ORG_NAME: nutanix-cloud-native
           TAG: ${{ env.RELEASE_TAG }}
+  images:
+    name: Push images
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Set up Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v6
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.24'
+      - name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          registry: ghcr.io
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Set version info
+        run: |
+          echo "VERSION=${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          # NB: this gets the closest tag cut from the same branch; for new minor tags, it will find the previous minor, not the previous patch release
+          # (for example v2.7.0, not v2.7.3). For new patch releases, it should fetch the previous patch (e.g. 2.7.3, not v2.7.0)
+          echo "PREVIOUS_VERSION=$(git describe --abbrev=0 2> /dev/null)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "RELEASE_BRANCH=release-$(echo ${GITHUB_REF_NAME} | grep -Eo '[0-9]\.[0-9]+')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "RELEASE_TAG=${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Push docker images
+        run: |
+          make docker-build-all
+          make docker-push-all
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          REGISTRY: "ghcr.io/nutanix-cloud-native"
+          PROD_REGISTRY: "ghcr.io/nutanix-cloud-native"
+          GH_ORG_NAME: nutanix-cloud-native
+          TAG: ${{ env.RELEASE_TAG }}

Makefile

@@ -587,8 +587,6 @@ release: clean-release check-release-tag check-release-branch $(RELEASE_DIR) $(G
 	CORE_CONTROLLER_IMG=$(PROD_REGISTRY)/$(CORE_IMAGE_NAME) $(MAKE) release-manifests
 	$(MAKE) release-policies
 	$(GORELEASER) release --config $(GORELEASER_CONFIG) --release-notes $(RELEASE_DIR)/CHANGELOG.md --clean --parallelism $(GORELEASER_PARALLELISM)
-	$(MAKE) docker-build-all
-	$(MAKE) docker-push-all
 
 release-policies: $(RELEASE_POLICIES) ## Release policies