diff --git a/.github/workflows/gather-artifacts.sh b/.github/workflows/gather-artifacts.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corporation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o pipefail
+
+pushd kata-artifacts >>/dev/null
+for c in ./*.tar.gz
+do
+    echo "untarring tarball $c"
+    tar -xvf $c
+done
+
+tar cfJ ../kata-static.tar.xz ./opt
+popd >>/dev/null
diff --git a/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh b/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corporation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o pipefail
+
+
+main() {
+    artifact_stage=${1:-}
+    artifact=$(echo  ${artifact_stage} | sed -n -e 's/^install_//p' | sed -r 's/_/-/g')
+    if [ -z "${artifact}" ]; then
+        "Scripts needs artifact name to build"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
+    export GOPATH=$HOME/go
+
+    go get github.com/kata-containers/packaging || true
+    pushd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kata-containers/packaging/release >>/dev/null
+    git checkout $tag
+    pushd ../obs-packaging
+    ./gen_versions_txt.sh $tag
+    popd
+
+    source ./kata-deploy-binaries.sh
+    ${artifact_stage} $tag
+    popd
+
+    mv $HOME/go/src/github.com/kata-containers/packaging/release/kata-static-${artifact}.tar.gz .
+}
+
+main $@
diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yaml b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
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+on: 
+  push: 
+    tags:
+     - '*'
+
+jobs:
+  get-artifact-list:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: get the list
+        run: |
+         git clone https://github.com/kata-containers/packaging
+         pushd packaging
+         tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
+         git checkout $tag
+         popd
+         ./packaging/artifact-list.sh > artifact-list.txt
+      - name: save-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+          path: artifact-list.txt
+
+  build-kernel:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_kernel"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - run: |
+         sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install -y flex bison libelf-dev bc iptables
+      - name: build-kernel
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-kernel.tar.gz
+
+  build-experimental-kernel:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_experimental_kernel"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - run: |
+         sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install -y flex bison libelf-dev bc iptables
+      - name: build-experimental-kernel
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-experimental-kernel.tar.gz
+
+  build-qemu:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_qemu"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - name: build-qemu
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-qemu.tar.gz
+
+  build-nemu:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_nemu"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - name: build-nemu
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-nemu.tar.gz
+
+  # Job for building the QEMU binaries with virtiofs support
+  build-qemu-virtiofsd:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_qemu_virtiofsd"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - name: build-qemu-virtiofsd
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-qemu-virtiofsd.tar.gz
+
+  # Job for building the image
+  build-image:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_image"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - name: build-image
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-image.tar.gz
+
+  # Job for building firecracker hypervisor
+  build-firecracker:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_firecracker"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - name: build-firecracker
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-firecracker.tar.gz
+
+  # Job for building cloud-hypervisor
+  build-clh:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_clh"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - name: build-clh
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-clh.tar.gz
+
+  # Job for building kata components
+  build-kata-components:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: get-artifact-list
+    env:
+      buildstr: "install_kata_components"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifact-list
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: artifact-list
+      - name: build-kata-components
+        run: |
+         if grep -q $buildstr ./artifact-list/artifact-list.txt; then
+           $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/generate-artifact-tarball.sh $buildstr
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::true
+         else
+           echo ::set-env name=artifact-built::false
+         fi
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        if: env.artifact-built == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+          path: kata-static-kata-components.tar.gz
+
+  gather-artifacts:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    needs: [build-kernel, build-qemu, build-qemu-virtiofsd, build-image, build-firecracker, build-kata-components, build-nemu]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: kata-artifacts
+      - name: colate-artifacts
+        run: |
+          $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/gather-artifacts.sh
+      - name: store-artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: release-candidate
+          path: kata-static.tar.xz
+
+  kata-deploy:
+    needs: gather-artifacts
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: get-artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: release-candidate
+      - name: build-and-push-kata-deploy-ci
+        run: |
+          tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
+          git clone https://github.com/kata-containers/packaging
+          pushd packaging
+          git checkout $tag
+          pkg_sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+          popd
+          mv release-candidate/kata-static.tar.xz ./packaging/kata-deploy/kata-static.tar.xz
+          docker build --build-arg KATA_ARTIFACTS=kata-static.tar.xz -t katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:$pkg_sha ./packaging/kata-deploy
+          docker login -u ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} -p ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
+          docker push katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:$pkg_sha
+          echo ::set-env name=PKG_SHA::$pkg_sha
+          echo ::set-env name=TAG::$tag
+      - name: test-kata-deploy-ci-in-aks
+        uses: ./packaging/kata-deploy/action
+        with:
+          packaging-sha: env.PKG_SHA
+        env:
+          PKG_SHA: ${{ env.PKG_SHA }}
+          AZ_APPID: ${{ secrets.AZ_APPID }}
+          AZ_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.AZ_PASSWORD }}
+          AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
+          AZ_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_TENANT_ID }}
+      - name: push-tarball
+        run: |
+          # tag the container image we created and push to DockerHub
+          docker tag katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:${{ env.PKG_SHA }} katadocker/kata-deploy:${{ env.TAG }}
+          docker push katadocker/kata-deploy:${{ env.TAG }}
+
+  upload-static-tarball:
+    needs: kata-deploy
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: download-artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: release-candidate
+      - name: install hub
+        run: |
+          HUB_VER=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hub/releases/latest" | jq -r .tag_name | sed 's/^v//')
+          wget -q -O- https://github.com/github/hub/releases/download/v$HUB_VER/hub-linux-amd64-$HUB_VER.tgz | \
+          tar xz --strip-components=2 --wildcards '*/bin/hub' && sudo mv hub /usr/local/bin/hub
+      - name: push static tarball to github
+        run: |
+          tag=$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d/ -f3-)
+          mv release-candidate/kata-static.tar.xz release-candidate/kata-static-$tag-x86_64.tar.xz
+          git clone https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime.git
+          cd runtime
+          GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GIT_UPLOAD_TOKEN }} hub release edit -m "" -a ../release-candidate/kata-static-$tag-x86_64.tar.xz "${tag}"