Release.md

Helm charts release

Bump the version of images.

1. Need to update values.yaml,
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

Operator Hub release

checkout to the latest release:

1. git checkout tags/v0.36.0
2. build package manifest: TAG=v0.36.0 make bundle
3. add replacement for a previous version to generated cluster csv: vi bundle/manifests/victoriametrics-operator.clusterserviceversion

spec:
  replaces: victoriametrics-operator.v0.35.0

Now you have to fork two repos and create pull requests to them with new version /bundle:

1. https://github.com/k8s-operatorhub/community-operators for OperatorHub.io
2. https://github.com/redhat-openshift-ecosystem/community-operators-prod for Embedded OperatorHub in OpenShift and OKD.