diff --git a/.bundled-extensions.json b/.bundled-extensions.json
deleted file mode 100644
index f521c01dfd..0000000000
--- a/.bundled-extensions.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "extensions": [
-    "pod-menu",
-    "node-menu",
-    "metrics-cluster-feature",
-    "kube-object-event-status"
-  ]
-}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml b/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ec49fec6e5..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-name: Release Drafter
-
-on:
-  push:
-    # branches to consider in the event; optional, defaults to all
-    branches:
-      - master
-
-jobs:
-  update_release_draft:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      # Drafts your next Release notes as Pull Requests are merged into "master"
-      - uses: release-drafter/release-drafter@v5
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b07b3a2929
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name: Release Open Lens
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - closed
+    branches:
+      - master
+      - release/v*.*
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Release
+    if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.merged == 'true' && contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'release') }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Release from lens
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: butlerlogic/action-autotag@stable
+        id: tagger
+        with:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+          tag_prefix: "v"
+      - uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+        if: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.tagname != '' }}
+        with:
+          name: v${{ steps.open-lens-version.outputs.VERSION }}
+          commit: master
+          tag: v${{ steps.open-lens-version.outputs.VERSION }}
+          body: ${{ github.event.pull_request.body }}
diff --git a/scripts/create-release-pr.ts b/scripts/create-release-pr.ts
index be4a13d426..202f340969 100755
--- a/scripts/create-release-pr.ts
+++ b/scripts/create-release-pr.ts
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ const createPrArgs = [
   "--base", prBase,
   "--title", `Release ${newVersion.format()}`,
   "--label", "skip-changelog",
+  "--label", "release",
   "--body-file", "-",
 ];
 
diff --git a/scripts/tag-release.sh b/scripts/tag-release.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index ce2ddffb2b..0000000000
--- a/scripts/tag-release.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
-  key="$1"
-
-  case $key in
-    -f|--force)
-      FORCE="--force"
-      shift # past argument
-      ;;
-  esac
-done
-
-if [[ `git branch --show-current` =~ ^release/v ]]
-then
-  VERSION_STRING=$(cat package.json | jq '.version' -r | xargs printf "v%s")
-  git tag ${VERSION_STRING} ${FORCE}
-  git push ${GIT_REMOTE:-origin} ${VERSION_STRING} ${FORCE}
-else
-  echo "You must be in a release branch"
-fi