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Releasing Loki Build Image

The loki-build-image is the Docker image used to run tests and build Grafana Loki binaries in CI.

The build and publish process of the image is triggered upon a merge to main if any changes were made in the folder ./loki-build-image/.

To build and use the loki-build-image:

1. Create a branch with the desired changes to the ./loki-build-image/Dockerfile.
2. Update the BUILD_IMAGE_VERSION variable in the Makefile.
3. Commit your changes.
4. Run make build-image-push to build and publish the new version of the build image.
5. Run make release-workflows to update the Github workflows.
6. Commit your changes.
7. Push your changes to the remote branch.
8. Open a PR against the main branch.