diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f9f513
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+
+name: Publish
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    name: Publish to galaxy
+    steps:
+    - name: Check out code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+   
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: 3.8
+
+    - name: Install ansible-base
+      run: pip install ansible-base
+
+    - name: Update the galaxy.yml with the release
+      env:
+        VERSION: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+      run: |
+        sed 's/{{ version }}/'$VERSION'/' galaxy.yml
+        cat galaxy.yml
+
+    # - name: Build and publish
+    #   env:
+    #     ANSIBLE_GALAXY_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANSIBLE_GALAXY_API_KEY }}
+    #   run: |
+    #     ansible-galaxy collection build 
+    #     ansible-galaxy collection publish *.tar.gz --api-key $ANSIBLE_GALAXY_API_KEY
diff --git a/galaxy.yml b/galaxy.yml
index 24a96ad..0b8f8bf 100644
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,5 @@ description: Ansible Collection with utilities to ease the management, manipulat
 readme: README.md
 repository: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils
 tags: [networking, security, cloud, utilities, data, validation]
-# NOTE(pabelanger): We create an empty version key to keep ansible-galaxy
-# happy. We dynamically inject version info based on git information.
-version: null
+# this will be updated by a gh action prior to push
+version: {{ version }}