VictoriaMetrics/docs/Release-Guide.md

Release process guidance

Release version and Docker images

0. Document all the changes for new release in CHANGELOG.md.
1. Create release tag with git tag v1.xx.y.
2. Run make release for creating *.tar.gz release archive with the corresponding _checksums.txt inside bin directory.
3. Run make publish for creating and publishing Docker images.
4. Push release tag to https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics : git push origin v1.xx.y.
5. Go to https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases , create new release from the pushed tag on step 4 and upload *.tar.gz archive with the corresponding _checksums.txt from step 2.

Helm Charts

The helm chart repository https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/helm-charts/

Bump the version of images.

In that case, don't need to bump the helm chart version

1. Need to update values.yaml, bump version for vmselect, vminsert and vmstorage
2. Specify the correct version in Chart.yaml
3. Update version README.md, specify the new version in the documentation
4. Push changes to master. master is a source of truth
5. Rebase master into gh-pages branch
6. Run make package which creates or updates zip file with the packed chart
7. Run make merge. It creates or updates metadata for charts in index.yaml
8. Push the changes to gh-pages branch

Updating the chart.

1. Update chart version in Chart.yaml
2. Update README.md file, reflect changes in the documentation.
3. Repeat the procedure from step 4 previous section.

Wiki pages

All changes from docs folder and .md extension automatically push to Wiki

Note: no vice versa, direct changes on Wiki will be overitten after any changes in docs/*.md

Github pages

All changes in README.md, docs folder and .md extension automatically push to Wiki