A Release is a specific version of your App / your SaaS product, as pointed by a specific version of its Helm Chart. Its you define a universal version number for your App to refer during deployments and rollbacks in LocalOps. You can point a Release to a specific helm chart version and pass any global environment variable as Helm values for it.
On a day to day basis, you will be creating many Releases to introduce changes to your running Environments.
Create Releases
Before creating a release ensure you have created an app.
Navigate to "Releases" section using the left-hand navigation pane.
Click on the "Add release" button located on the top-right corner of the page.
Choose the desired app for which you wish to initiate a release.
Add a release tag used to uniquely identify this release
Add a changelog to describe the changes included in this release.
Finally click on "add release" button to save your release.
Delete Releases
Click the "Releases" section on the left-hand navigation pane.
Click on the "More Options(...)" button corresponding to the release you want to delete from the list.
Select the "Delete" option, triggering a confirmation prompt.
Then click on "continue" to proceed and delete the release.