diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
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+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+build/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -225,3 +225,19 @@ Push to osgeo repository:
 ```shell
 docker push geoserver-docker.osgeo.org/geoserver:2.21.1
 ```
+
+### How to automate release?
+
+For CI purposes, the script in the `build` folder is used to simplify those steps.
+
+The variables `DOCKERUSER` and `DOCKERPASSWORD` have to be set with valid credentials before this script can push the image to the osgeo repo.
+
+You need to pass the version as first and the type as second argument, where type has to be one of `build`, `publish` or `buildandpublish`.
+
+Examples:
+
+`./release.sh 2.22.1 build`
+
+`./release.sh 2.22.0 publish`
+
+`./release.sh 2.22.1 buildandpublish`
diff --git a/build/release.sh b/build/release.sh
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@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# error out if any statements fail
+set -e
+
+function usage() {
+  echo "$0 [options] <version>"
+  echo " version : The released version to build an docker image for (eg: 2.1.4)"
+  echo " mode : The mode. Choose one of 'build', 'publish' or 'buildandpublish'"
+}
+
+if [ -z $1 ] || [ -z $2 ] || [[ $2 != "build" && $2 != "publish" && $2 != "buildandpublish" ]]; then
+  usage
+  exit
+fi
+
+VERSION=$1
+TAG=geoserver-docker.osgeo.org/geoserver:$VERSION
+
+# Go up one level to the Dockerfile
+cd ".."
+
+if [ $2 != "publish" ]; then
+  echo "Building GeoServer Docker Image..."
+  echo "docker build --build-arg GS_VERSION=$VERSION -t $TAG ."
+  docker build --build-arg GS_VERSION=$VERSION -t $TAG .
+fi
+
+if [ $2 != "build" ]; then
+  echo "Publishing GeoServer Docker Image..."
+  echo $DOCKERPASSWORD | docker login -u $DOCKERUSER --password-stdin geoserver-docker.osgeo.org
+  echo "docker push $TAG"
+  docker push $TAG
+fi