diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release.md
index f88324eb3..92441d0b2 100644
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release.md
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ title: 'vX.Y.Z release'
       git push origin "v$NEW_RELEASE"
 
 - [ ] Ping [`hubble-maintainers` team] on Slack to get an approval to run
-      [Image Release Build workflow].
+      [Release workflow].
 - [ ] Wait for the [`Create a release` workflow] to finish.
 - [ ] Find the release draft in the [Releases page]. Copy and paste release notes from
       CHANGELOG.md, and click on `Publish release` button.
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ title: 'vX.Y.Z release'
      and then open a pull request against the `main` branch, get it reviewed and merged.
 
 [Cilium release tool]: https://github.com/cilium/release
-[Image Release Build workflow]: https://github.com/cilium/hubble/actions/workflows/build-images-release.yaml
+[Release workflow]: https://github.com/cilium/hubble/actions/workflows/release.yml
 [`hubble-maintainers` team]: https://github.com/orgs/cilium/teams/hubble-maintainers
 [Releases page]: https://github.com/cilium/hubble/releases
 [Cilium Slack #general channel]: https://cilium.slack.com/archives/C1MATJ5U5
diff --git a/.github/renovate.json5 b/.github/renovate.json5
index da9250f61..1363ec9dd 100644
--- a/.github/renovate.json5
+++ b/.github/renovate.json5
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
   "gitAuthor": "renovate[bot] <bot@renovateapp.com>",
   "includePaths": [
     ".github/workflows/**",
-    "Dockerfile",
     "go.mod",
     "go.sum",
     "Makefile",
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-images-release.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-images-release.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f4bf784c..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/build-images-release.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,155 +0,0 @@
-name: Image Release Build
-
-# Any change in triggers needs to be reflected in the concurrency group.
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-    tags:
-      - 'v*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - v*
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.event.after }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-permissions: read-all
-
-jobs:
-  determine-deployment:
-    if: ${{ github.repository == 'cilium/hubble' }}
-    name: Determine Deployment
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-      - name: Determine deployment environment
-        id: environment
-        # use 'release' deployment if the workflow was triggered on a pushed tag starting with "v"
-        run: |
-          echo "deployment=${{ (github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')) && 'release' || '' }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-    outputs:
-      name: ${{ steps.environment.outputs.deployment }}
-
-  build-and-push:
-    if: ${{ github.repository == 'cilium/hubble' }}
-    environment: ${{ needs.determine-deployment.outputs.name }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    needs: determine-deployment
-    strategy:
-      # matrix for easier code-sharing with workflows from cilium/cilium
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - name: hubble
-            dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@c47758b77c9736f4b2ef4073d4d51994fabfe349 # v3.7.1
-
-      - name: Login to quay.io
-        if: ${{ needs.determine-deployment.outputs.name == 'release' }}
-        uses: docker/login-action@9780b0c442fbb1117ed29e0efdff1e18412f7567 # v3.3.0
-        with:
-          registry: quay.io
-          username: ${{ secrets.QUAY_USERNAME_RELEASE_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.QUAY_PASSWORD_RELEASE_PASSWORD }}
-
-      - name: Getting image tag
-        id: tag
-        run: |
-          echo "tag=${GITHUB_REF##*/}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Checkout Source Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-
-      - name: Release Build ${{ matrix.name }}
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@48aba3b46d1b1fec4febb7c5d0c644b249a11355 # v6.10.0
-        id: docker_build_release
-        with:
-          context: .
-          file: ${{ matrix.dockerfile }}
-          push: ${{ needs.determine-deployment.outputs.name == 'release' }}
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          tags: |
-            quay.io/${{ github.repository_owner }}/${{ matrix.name }}:${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}
-
-      - name: Image Release Digest
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p image-digest/
-          job_name=${{ matrix.name }}
-          job_name_capital=${job_name^^}
-          job_name_underscored=${job_name_capital//-/_}
-          echo "${job_name_underscored}_DIGEST := \"${{ steps.docker_build_release.outputs.digest }}\"" > image-digest/makefile-digest.txt
-
-          echo "### ${{ matrix.name }}" > image-digest/${{ matrix.name }}.txt
-          echo "" >> image-digest/${{ matrix.name }}.txt
-          echo "\`quay.io/${{ github.repository_owner }}/${{ matrix.name }}:${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}@${{ steps.docker_build_release.outputs.digest }}\`" >> image-digest/${{ matrix.name }}.txt
-          echo "" >> image-digest/${{ matrix.name }}.txt
-
-      # Upload artifact digests
-      - name: Upload artifact digests
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
-        with:
-          name: image-digest ${{ matrix.name }}
-          path: image-digest
-          retention-days: 1
-
-  image-digests:
-    if: ${{ github.repository == 'cilium/hubble' }}
-    name: Display Digests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    needs: build-and-push
-    steps:
-      - name: Getting image tag
-        id: tag
-        run: |
-          echo "tag=${GITHUB_REF##*/}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-      - name: Downloading Image Digests
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p image-digest/
-
-      - name: Download digests of all images built
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@fa0a91b85d4f404e444e00e005971372dc801d16 # v4.1.8
-        with:
-          pattern: "*image-digest *"
-          path: image-digest/
-
-      - name: Image Digests Output
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          cd image-digest/
-          echo "## Docker Manifests" > ../image-digest-output.txt
-          echo "" >> ../image-digest-output.txt
-          find -type f -not -name "makefile-digest.txt" | sort | xargs -d '\n' cat >> ../image-digest-output.txt
-
-      - name: Image Makefile Digests
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          cd image-digest/
-          echo "# File generated by .github/workflows/build-images-releases.yaml; DO NOT EDIT." > ../Makefile.digests
-          echo "# Copyright "$(date +'%Y')" Authors of Cilium" >> ../Makefile.digests
-          echo "# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0" >> ../Makefile.digests
-          echo "" >> ../Makefile.digests
-          find -type f  -name "makefile-digest.txt" | sort | xargs -d '\n' cat >> ../Makefile.digests
-
-      # Upload artifact digests
-      - name: Upload artifact digests
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
-        with:
-          name: image-digest-output.txt-${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}
-          path: image-digest-output.txt
-          retention-days: 1
-
-      # Upload artifact digests
-      - name: Upload artifact digests
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
-        with:
-          name: Makefile.digests-${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}
-          path: Makefile.digests
-          retention-days: 1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index e9482194e..6df109d22 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ name: Create a release
 jobs:
   build:
     name: Create Release
+    environment: release
     if: github.repository == 'cilium/hubble'
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 0757d18fd..000000000
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-FROM docker.io/library/golang:1.23.4-alpine3.19@sha256:5f3336882ad15d10ac1b59fbaba7cb84c35d4623774198b36ae60edeba45fd84 as builder
-WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/cilium/hubble
-RUN apk add --no-cache git make
-COPY . .
-RUN make clean && make hubble
-
-# NOTE: As of 2021-07-14, Alpine 3.11, 3.13 and 3.14 suffer from a bug in
-# busybox[0] that affects busybox's nslookup implementation. Under certain
-# conditions that typically depend on `/etc/resolv.conf` configuration,
-# nslookup returns with exit code 1 instead of 0 even when the given name is
-# resolved successfully. More information about the bug can be found on this
-# thread[1].
-# [0]: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12541
-# [1]: https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/issues/539
-FROM docker.io/library/alpine:3.21.0@sha256:21dc6063fd678b478f57c0e13f47560d0ea4eeba26dfc947b2a4f81f686b9f45
-RUN apk add --no-cache bash curl jq
-COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/cilium/hubble/hubble /usr/bin
-CMD ["/usr/bin/hubble"]