diff --git a/.github/workflows/publishimage.yml b/.github/workflows/publishimage.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..458170ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publishimage.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Copyright 2021 Security Scorecard Authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: publishimage
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  id-token: write
+  packages: write
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - main
+env:
+  GO_VERSION: 1.17.7
+
+jobs:
+  unit-test:
+    name: publishimage
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+     - name: Harden Runner
+       uses: step-security/harden-runner@bdb12b622a910dfdc99a31fdfe6f45a16bc287a4 # v1
+       with:
+         egress-policy: audit # TODO: change to 'egress-policy: block' after couple of runs
+
+     - name: Clone the code
+       uses: actions/checkout@dcd71f646680f2efd8db4afa5ad64fdcba30e748 # v2.3.4
+       with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+     - name: Setup Go
+       uses: actions/setup-go@f6164bd8c8acb4a71fb2791a8b6c4024ff038dab # v2.2.0
+       with:
+         go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+     - name: install ko
+       uses: imjasonh/setup-ko@2c3450ca27f6e6f2b02e72a40f2163c281a1f675 # v0.4
+     - name: publishimage
+       uses: nick-invision/retry@7f8f3d9f0f62fe5925341be21c2e8314fd4f7c7c
+       with:
+          max_attempts: 3
+          retry_on: error
+          timeout_minutes: 30
+          command: |
+            go env -w GOFLAGS=-mod=mod
+            make install
+            make scorecard-ko
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cba83c48..230cd723 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -200,9 +200,8 @@ ko-build-everything: $(ko-targets)
 
 scorecard-ko:
 	$(call create_kocache_path)
-	KO_DATA_DATE_EPOCH=$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) KO_DOCKER_REPO=${KO_PREFIX}/scorecard LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" \
+	KO_DATA_DATE_EPOCH=$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" \
 	KO_CACHE=$(KOCACHE_PATH) ko build -B \
-			   --push=false \
 			   --sbom=none \
 			   --platform=$(PLATFORM)\
 			   --tags latest,$(GIT_VERSION),$(GIT_HASH) github.com/ossf/scorecard/v4
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 2fa4cda4..ff879e1e 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
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