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+name: Build container image
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "[a-z-]+:[a-z0-9-]+"
+env:
+  REGISTRY: ghcr.io
+
+jobs:
+  build-and-push:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: extract image name and tag using bash parameter expansion
+        run: |
+          image_name=${GITHUB_REF_NAME#*:}
+          image_tag=${GITHUB_REF_NAME%%:*}
+          echo "image_name=$image_name" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "image_tag=$image_tag" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v2
+      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v2
+        with:
+          registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Docker metadata
+        id: metadata
+        uses: docker/metadata-action@v4
+        with:
+          images: ${{ format('ghcr.io/astriaorg/test-images-{0}', env.image_name) }}
+          tags: |
+            type=raw,value=${{env.image_tag}}
+      - name: Build and push
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v4
+        with:
+          # this gets rid of the unknown/unknown image that is created without this setting
+          # https://github.com/docker/build-push-action/issues/820#issuecomment-1455687416
+          provenance: false
+          context: .
+          file: ${{ format('Dockerfile.{0}', env.image_name) }}
+          platforms: 'linux/amd64,linux/arm64'
+          push: true
+          tags: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.tags }}
+          labels: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.labels }}