= Releasing the Jaeger Operator for Kubernetes

1. Prepare a changelog and get it merged. A list of commits since the last release (`v1.8.0` in the following example) can be obtained via:

  $ git log --format="format:* %s" v1.8.0...HEAD

1. Test!

  export BUILD_IMAGE_TEST="${USER}/jaeger-operator:latest"
  export BUILD_IMAGE="${BUILD_IMAGE_TEST}"
  make all

1. Tag and push

  git checkout master ## it's only possible to release from master for now!
  git tag release/v1.6.1
  git push git@github.com:jaegertracing/jaeger-operator.git release/v1.6.1
