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+# Release Process
+
+The NVIDIA GPU Operator consists of the following artifacts:
+- The NVIDIA GPU Operator container
+- The NVIDIA GPU Operator helm chart
+- The NVIDIA GPU Operator OLM bundle
+
+The container and helm chart are published to nvcr.io.
+The OLM bundle is published to the [Red Hat certified operators production catalog](https://github.com/redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators).
+
+The NVIDIA GPU Operator is versioned following the calendar versioning convention.
+To learn more about the project's versioning and lifecycle, refer to the [official documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/gpu-operator/latest/platform-support.html#nvidia-gpu-operator-versioning).
+
+# Release Process Checklist:
+- [ ] Create a release PR:
+    - [ ] Create a new `bump-release-{{ .VERSION }}` branch
+    - [ ] Bump the project version in `versions.mk` and in the OLM bundle manifests in `bundle/manifests/`
+    - [ ] Create a PR from the created `bump-release-{{ .VERSION }}` branch
+- [ ] Merge the release PR
+- [ ] Tag the release and push the tag to the `internal` mirror
+- [ ] Wait for the image to be published to nvcr.io
+- [ ] Publish the helm chart to nvcr.io
+- [ ] Publish the helm chart to the `gh-pages` branch
+- [ ] Push the tag to the upstream GitHub repo
+- [ ] Publish the OLM bundle to the certified operators catalog
+    - [ ] Create a PR in the [certified-operators](https://github.com/redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators) GitHub repository
+- [ ] Publish the [release](https://github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator/releases)