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+name: Automation - Release OLTP components
+
+on:
+  push:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      candidate-version:
+        required: true
+        description: Release candidate version (beta, like 0.70.0)
+
+jobs:
+  prepare-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          path: opentelemetry-collector-contrib
+          ref: aws-ocb-dev
+      - name: get hash
+        working-directory: opentelemetry-collector-contrib
+        run: |
+          echo RELEASE_HASH=$(git rev-parse HEAD) >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: build OCB
+
+      - name: upload OCB to staging repo with hash as tag
+
+      - name: trigger test in other repo
+
+      - name: if test passed, create tags PR
+      
+      - name: if test passed, upload OCB to staging repo with latest as tag
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