diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..332acff44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+.git
+.github
+.idea
+bin
+conf
+docs/build
+docs/temp
+docs/venv
+metastore_db
+target
+common/target
+spark-integration/target
+fuzz-testing/target
+spark/target
+native/target
+core/target
+spark-warehouse
+venv
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..daa6db324
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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: Publish Docker images
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.sha }}-${{ github.workflow }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*.*.*'
+      - '*.*.*-rc*'
+      - 'test-docker-publish-*'
+
+docker:
+  name: Docker
+  runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+  permissions:
+    contents: read
+    packages: write
+  steps:
+    - name: Set up Java
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+      with:
+        java-version: '17'
+    - name: Extract Comet version
+      id: extract_version
+      run: |
+        COMET_VERSION=$(mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version -q -DforceStdout)
+        echo "COMET_VERSION=$COMET_VERSION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: Echo Comet version
+      run: echo "The current Comet version is ${{ env.COMET_VERSION }}"
+    - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+    - name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
+      uses: docker/login-action@v3
+      with:
+        registry: ghcr.io
+        username: ${{ github.actor }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    - name: Build and push
+      uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
+      with:
+        platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
+        push: true
+        tags: apache/datafusion-comet:spark-3.4-scala-2.12-${{ env.COMET_VERSION }}
+        file: kube/Dockerfile
diff --git a/docs/source/user-guide/installation.md b/docs/source/user-guide/installation.md
index 45f988e29..07fc689c5 100644
--- a/docs/source/user-guide/installation.md
+++ b/docs/source/user-guide/installation.md
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ Make sure the following requirements are met and software installed on your mach
 - JDK 8 and up
 - GLIBC 2.17 (Centos 7) and up
 
-## Using a Published Binary Release
+## Using a Published Docker Image
+
+Docker images are available at https://github.com/orgs/apache/packages?repo_name=datafusion-comet
+
+## Using a Published JAR File
 
 There are no published binary releases yet.
 
diff --git a/kube/Dockerfile b/kube/Dockerfile
index d6244c113..4e15794ab 100644
--- a/kube/Dockerfile
+++ b/kube/Dockerfile
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ USER root
 
 # Installing JDK11 as the image comes with JRE
 RUN apt update \
-    && apt install -y git \
     && apt install -y curl \
     && apt install -y openjdk-11-jdk \
     && apt clean
@@ -32,14 +31,38 @@ ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C debuginfo=line-tables-only -C incremental=false"
 ENV SPARK_VERSION=3.4
 ENV SCALA_VERSION=2.12
 
+# copy source files to Docker image
+RUN mkdir /comet
+WORKDIR /comet
+
+# build native code first so that this layer can be re-used
+# if only Scala code gets modified
+COPY rust-toolchain.toml /comet/rust-toolchain.toml
+COPY native /comet/native
+RUN cd native && RUSTFLAGS="-Ctarget-cpu=native" cargo build --release
+
+# copy the rest of the project
+COPY .mvn /comet/.mvn
+COPY mvnw /comet/mvnw
+COPY common /comet/common
+COPY dev /comet/dev
+COPY docs /comet/docs
+COPY fuzz-testing /comet/fuzz-testing
+COPY spark /comet/spark
+COPY spark-integration /comet/spark-integration
+COPY scalafmt.conf /comet/scalafmt.conf
+COPY .scalafix.conf /comet/.scalafix.conf
+COPY Makefile /comet/Makefile
+COPY pom.xml /comet/pom.xml
+
 # Pick the JDK instead of JRE to compile Comet
-RUN cd /opt \
-    && git clone https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet.git \
-    && cd datafusion-comet \
-    && JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f $(which javac) | sed "s/\/bin\/javac//") make release PROFILES="-Pspark-$SPARK_VERSION -Pscala-$SCALA_VERSION"
+RUN cd /comet \
+    && JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f $(which javac) | sed "s/\/bin\/javac//") make release-nogit PROFILES="-Pspark-$SPARK_VERSION -Pscala-$SCALA_VERSION"
 
 FROM apache/spark:3.4.2
 ENV SPARK_VERSION=3.4
 ENV SCALA_VERSION=2.12
 USER root
-COPY --from=builder  /opt/datafusion-comet/spark/target/comet-spark-spark${SPARK_VERSION}_$SCALA_VERSION-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar $SPARK_HOME/jars
\ No newline at end of file
+
+# ntoe the use of a wildcard in the file name so that this works with both snapshot and final release versions
+COPY --from=builder  /comet/spark/target/comet-spark-spark${SPARK_VERSION}_$SCALA_VERSION-0.2.0*.jar $SPARK_HOME/jars
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/native/Cargo.toml b/native/Cargo.toml
index 9977ceece..2e73c5445 100644
--- a/native/Cargo.toml
+++ b/native/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ arrow-buffer = { version = "52.2.0" }
 arrow-data = { version = "52.2.0" }
 arrow-schema = { version = "52.2.0" }
 parquet = { version = "52.2.0", default-features = false, features = ["experimental"] }
-datafusion-common = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1" }
-datafusion = { default-features = false, git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1", features = ["unicode_expressions", "crypto_expressions"] }
-datafusion-functions = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1", features = ["crypto_expressions"] }
-datafusion-functions-nested = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git",  rev = "41.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
-datafusion-expr = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
-datafusion-execution = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
-datafusion-physical-plan = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
-datafusion-physical-expr-common = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
-datafusion-physical-expr = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "41.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
+datafusion-common = { version = "41.0.0" }
+datafusion = { default-features = false, version = "41.0.0", features = ["unicode_expressions", "crypto_expressions"] }
+datafusion-functions = { version = "41.0.0", features = ["crypto_expressions"] }
+datafusion-functions-nested = { version = "41.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-expr = { version = "41.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-execution = { version = "41.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-physical-plan = { version = "41.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-physical-expr-common = { version = "41.0.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { version = "41.0.0", default-features = false }
 datafusion-comet-spark-expr = { path = "spark-expr", version = "0.2.0" }
 datafusion-comet-proto = { path = "proto", version = "0.2.0" }
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["clock"] }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 311437cc9..d41a57dbc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -588,6 +588,10 @@ under the License.
       </properties>
     </profile>
 
+    <profile>
+      <id>scala-2.12</id>
+    </profile>
+
     <profile>
       <id>scala-2.13</id>
       <properties>
@@ -938,6 +942,7 @@ under the License.
             <exclude>**/build/**</exclude>
             <exclude>**/target/**</exclude>
             <exclude>**/apache-spark/**</exclude>
+            <exclude>.dockerignore</exclude>
             <exclude>.git/**</exclude>
             <exclude>.github/**</exclude>
             <exclude>.gitignore</exclude>
@@ -963,7 +968,7 @@ under the License.
             <exclude>docs/source/_static/images/**</exclude>
             <exclude>dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt</exclude>
             <exclude>dev/release/requirements.txt</exclude>
-            <exclude>native/core/src/execution/generated/**</exclude>
+            <exclude>native/proto/src/generated/**</exclude>
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>