diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-images.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish-images.yaml
index 8a80151fd9..e4c49a0b57 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-images.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-images.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ on:
   push:
     tags:
       - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+
-      - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-rc.* # include prerelease tags too
+      - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-rc.[0-9]+ # include prerelease tags too
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [prepare]
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        platform: [amd64, arm64]
+        platform: [amd64]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@8e5e7e5ab8b370d6c329ec480221332ada57f0ab # v3.5.2
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
       id-token: write
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        platform: [amd64, arm64]
+        platform: [amd64]
         registry: [gcr, dockerhub]
         include:
         - registry: gcr
@@ -69,39 +69,12 @@ jobs:
           username: GCR_USERNAME
           password: GCR_JSON_KEY
         - registry: dockerhub
-          url: docker.io
+          url: quay.io
           repository: DOCKERHUB_REPOSITORY
           username: DOCKERHUB_USERNAME
           password: DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@8e5e7e5ab8b370d6c329ec480221332ada57f0ab # v3.5.2
-      - name: Login to Registry
-        uses: docker/login-action@f4ef78c080cd8ba55a85445d5b36e214a81df20a # v2.1.0
-        with:
-          registry: ${{ matrix.url }}
-          username: ${{ secrets[matrix.username] }}
-          password: ${{ secrets[matrix.password] }}
-      - name: Push ${{matrix.platform}} to ${{matrix.registry}}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/upload-image
-        with:
-          platform: ${{ matrix.platform }}
-          labels: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.labels }}
-          version: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
-          registry: ${{ matrix.url }}
-          repository: ${{ secrets[matrix.repository] }}
-      - name: Get image digest
-        id: digest
-        env:
-          IMAGE: ${{ matrix.url }}/${{ secrets[matrix.repository] }}:${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}-${{ matrix.platform }}
-        run: |
-          hack/build/ci/get-image-digest.sh
-      - name: Sign image for ${{matrix.registry}}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/sign-image
-        with:
-          image: ${{ matrix.url }}/${{ secrets[matrix.repository] }}:${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}-${{ matrix.platform }}@${{steps.digest.outputs.digest}}
-          signing-key: ${{ secrets.COSIGN_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-          signing-password: ${{ secrets.COSIGN_PASSWORD }}
+      - run: echo "pushing ${{matrix.platform}} to ${{matrix.registry}}/${{matrix.repository}}"
 
   push-rhcc:
     name: Push amd64 image to RHCC
@@ -112,32 +85,7 @@ jobs:
     env:
       SCAN_REGISTRY: "quay.io"
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@8e5e7e5ab8b370d6c329ec480221332ada57f0ab # v3.5.2
-      - name: Login to Registry
-        uses: docker/login-action@f4ef78c080cd8ba55a85445d5b36e214a81df20a # v2.1.0
-        with:
-          registry: ${{ env.SCAN_REGISTRY }}
-          username: ${{ secrets.RHCC_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.RHCC_PASSWORD }}
-      - name: Push amd64 image to scan registry
-        uses: ./.github/actions/upload-image
-        with:
-          platform: "amd64"
-          labels: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.labels }}
-          version: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
-          registry: ${{ env.SCAN_REGISTRY }}
-          repository: ${{ secrets.RHCC_REPOSITORY }}
-          skip-platform-suffix: true
-      - name: Run preflight
-        uses: ./.github/actions/preflight
-        with:
-          version: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
-          registry: ${{ env.SCAN_REGISTRY }}
-          repository: ${{ secrets.RHCC_REPOSITORY }}
-          report-name: "preflight.json"
-          redhat-project-id: ${{ secrets.REDHAT_PROJECT_ID }}
-          pyxis-api-token: ${{ secrets.PYXIS_API_TOKEN }}
+      - run: echo "noo this should not happen!"
 
   manifest:
     name: Create manifest
@@ -161,24 +109,4 @@ jobs:
             username: DOCKERHUB_USERNAME
             password: DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@8e5e7e5ab8b370d6c329ec480221332ada57f0ab # v3.5.2
-      - name: Login to Registry
-        uses: docker/login-action@f4ef78c080cd8ba55a85445d5b36e214a81df20a # v2.1.0
-        with:
-          registry: ${{ matrix.url }}
-          username: ${{ secrets[matrix.username] }}
-          password: ${{ secrets[matrix.password] }}
-      - name: Create manifests for ${{matrix.registry}}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/create-manifests
-        with:
-          version: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
-          registry: ${{ matrix.url }}
-          repository: ${{ secrets[matrix.repository] }}
-          combined: true
-      - name: Sign manifests for ${{matrix.registry}}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/sign-image
-        with:
-          image: ${{ matrix.url }}/${{ secrets[matrix.repository] }}:${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
-          signing-key: ${{ secrets.COSIGN_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-          signing-password: ${{ secrets.COSIGN_PASSWORD }}
+      - run: echo "this should happen again for ${{matrix.registry}}."