diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-release-pull-request.yml b/.github/workflows/create-release-pull-request.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 38b4c697b..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/create-release-pull-request.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-# https://github.com/Azure/azure-workload-identity/blob/main/.github/workflows/create-release-pull-request.yaml
-name: create_release_pull_request
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      release_version:
-        description: 'Which version are we creating a release pull request for?'
-        required: true
-      based_on_branch:
-        description: 'Which branch should we base the release pull request on?'
-        required: true
-        default: main
-
-permissions:
-  contents: write
-  pull-requests: write
-
-env:
-  GO_VERSION: '1.20'
-
-jobs:
-  create-release-pull-request:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    steps:
-      - name: validate version
-        run: |
-          echo "${{ github.event.inputs.release_version }}" | grep -E 'v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'
-          echo "${{ github.event.inputs.based_on_branch }}" | grep -E '^(main|release-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)$'
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          ref: "${{ github.event.inputs.based_on_branch }}"
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@v4
-        with:
-          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
-      - name: update release manifest
-        run: make release-manifest
-        env:
-          VERSION: "${{ github.event.inputs.release_version }}"
-      - name: Create release pull request
-        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
-        with:
-          commit-message: "release: update manifest and helm charts for ${{ github.event.inputs.release_version }}"
-          title: "release: update manifest and helm charts for ${{ github.event.inputs.release_version }}"
-          branch: "release-${{ github.event.inputs.release_version }}"
-          base: ${{ github.event.inputs.based_on_branch }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/helm-chart.yml b/.github/workflows/helm-chart.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d3fa115c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/helm-chart.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+name: publish_helm_chart
+
+on:
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: [ "Create, Scan and Publish KDM image" ]
+    types: [ completed ]
+    branches: [ release-** ]
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Configure Git
+        run: |
+          git config user.name "$GITHUB_ACTOR"
+          git config user.email "$GITHUB_ACTOR@users.noreply.github.com"
+
+      - name: Run chart-releaser
+        uses: helm/chart-releaser-action@v1.5.0
+        env:
+          CR_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cd212d2b6..0bfe71761 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -187,10 +187,13 @@ lint: $(GOLANGCI_LINT)
 
 ## --------------------------------------
 ## Release
+## To create a release, run `make release VERSION=x.y.z`
 ## --------------------------------------
 .PHONY: release-manifest
 release-manifest:
 	@sed -i -e 's/^VERSION ?= .*/VERSION ?= ${VERSION}/' ./Makefile
 	@sed -i -e "s/version: .*/version: ${IMG_TAG}/" ./charts/kdm/Chart.yaml
 	@sed -i -e "s/tag: .*/tag: ${IMG_TAG}/" ./charts/kdm/values.yaml
-	@sed -i -e 's/RELEASE_TAG=.*/RELEASE_TAG=${IMG_TAG}/' ./charts/README.md
+	@sed -i -e 's/IMG_TAG=.*/IMG_TAG=${IMG_TAG}/' ./charts/README.md
+	git add ./Makefile ./charts/kdm/Chart.yaml ./charts/kdm/values.yaml ./charts/README.md
+	git commit -s -m "release: update manifest and helm charts for ${VERSION}"