A lot of manual steps are involved to release assisted-installer images for a MCE release

Current status

during dev

• nothing is released
• mce operator bundle references in config/mce-manifest-gen-config.json : quay.io/acm-d/assisted-XXX-rhelX:v2.X-latest
• we are not pinning a sha/commit before releasing to stage

Creation of RC (push to stage)

• Snapshot & Release Konflux CR are created in the konflux cluster to push to stage registry
• a PR is opened to https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/acm/acm-release-management to keep the CRs
• mce operator bundle repo references in config/mce-manifest-gen-config.json : registry.stage.redhat.io
• Message to slack channel to inform a new bundle should be built

Creation of a release

• Snapshot & Release Konflux CR are created in the konflux cluster to push to prod registry
  -a PR is opened to https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/acm/acm-release-management to keep the CRs
• mce operator bundle repo references in config/mce-manifest-gen-config.json : registry.redhat.io
• Message to slack channel to inform a new bundle should be built

Proposal

Having multiple scripts and some orchestration. The initial target was to provide a Service Account to the release team so that they can create Konflux CRs directly in assisted-installer konflux workspace