Merge pull request #4247 from reasonerjt/doc-release-digest-distroless

Update release instruction
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Scott Seago
2021-10-21 08:34:18 -04:00
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@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ For each major or minor release, create and publish a blog post to let folks kno
- Do a review of the diffs, and/or run `make serve-docs` and review the site.
- Submit a PR containing the changelog and the version-tagged docs.
### Pin the base image
The image of velero is built based on [Distroless docker image](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless).
For the reproducibility of the release, before the release candidate is tagged, we need to make sure the in the Dockerfile
on the release branch, the base image is referenced by digest, such as
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/blob/release-1.7/Dockerfile#L53-L54
## Velero release
### Notes
- Pre-requisite: PR with the changelog and docs is merged, so that it's included in the release tag.