Release promotion pipeline enhancements

[gaiksaya]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

With #4748 closed, we were able to bring down the pipeline runtime from 1 hour 6min (1.3.16 release run) to 21min (1.3.17 release run) which is around 68%. However, there are still few other jobs that are manually triggered today.

Listing them here:

• Docker promotion workflow
• Maven promotion workflow
• Manually invalidate cloudfront
• Validation workflow for all platforms/arch

Other enhancements that are out of the scope of this issue are:

• Manual Validation for core native plugins (example: respository-s3) [RELEASE] Release version 1.3.17 #4659 (comment)
• Adding validation for APT repo
• Increasing the validation time for windows artifacts since its takes 15min for the CI docker image to be pulled on windows agent.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add above workflows to automated centralized pipeline bringing us closer to #3676

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[peterzhuamazon]

Add on top of this list, we can also add things like:

• Tag repos after release
• Update manifests with tag
• Send helm/ansible PRs
• Cut tag on infra
• More......

to the central release workflow too.

My concern is that we should have a resume function because the central promotion pipeline includes too many steps now. We do not want to switch back to manual trigger if one step failed in the process.

Thanks.

[gaiksaya]

@peterzhuamazon IMO the workflows that you mentioned can be added into new central workflow for post release activities. central-post-release-workflows WDYT? Trying to keep promotion job as promotion only.
Adding @prudhvigodithi @rishabh6788 to the conversation.

[peterzhuamazon]

@peterzhuamazon IMO the workflows that you mentioned can be added into new central workflow for post release activities. central-post-release-workflows WDYT? Trying to keep promotion job as promotion only. Adding @prudhvigodithi @rishabh6788 to the conversation.

Yeah that would also be good so we can separate these two.
Each would take max about 30min and could be easily restarted as well.

Thanks.