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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: Build and Push RC Docker Image
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      image_type:
+        type: choice
+        description: Docker image type to be built and pushed
+        options: 
+          - "jvm"
+      rc_docker_image:
+        description: RC docker image that needs to be built and pushed to Dockerhub
+        required: true
+      kafka_url:
+        description: Kafka url to be used to build the docker image
+        required: true
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    if: github.repository == 'apache/kafka'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python 3.10
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: "3.10"
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install -r docker/requirements.txt
+    - name: Set up QEMU
+      uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
+    - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+    - name: Login to Docker Hub
+      uses: docker/login-action@v3
+      with:
+        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+    - name: Release the RC docker image
+      run: |
+        python docker/docker_release.py ${{ github.event.inputs.rc_docker_image }} --kafka-url ${{ github.event.inputs.kafka_url }} --image-type ${{ github.event.inputs.image_type }}
+