KubeTidy Release Process

KubeTidy releases are built from Git tags such as v0.0.21 or v0.0.21-rc1.

What a tagged release does

• runs Go tests
• builds native binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows
• publishes Krew archives and updates KubeTidy.yaml
• publishes the PowerShell module with the wrapper and bundled binaries
• rebuilds the MkDocs site for GitHub Pages
• marks rc-style tags as GitHub prereleases

Release steps

1. Create a stable or release-candidate tag locally:

git tag v0.0.21
git tag v0.0.21-rc1

1. Push the tag:

git push origin v0.0.21

1. GitHub Actions handles the rest through:

2. .github/workflows/ci.yaml

3. .github/workflows/publish-release.yml
4. .github/workflows/pages.yml

Local verification before tagging

make tidy
make test
make build
python -m pip install -r requirements-docs.txt
mkdocs build --strict