diff --git a/.github/workflows/server-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/server-publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d81484efc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/server-publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+name: "Publish (server)"
+
+on:
+    # Run manually, providing it the commit.
+    #
+    # To obtain the commit from the currently deployed museum, do:
+    # curl -s https://api.ente.io/ping | jq -r '.id'
+    workflow_dispatch:
+        inputs:
+            commit:
+                description: "Commit to publish the image from"
+                type: string
+                required: true
+
+jobs:
+    build:
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        steps:
+            - name: Checkout code @ ${{ inputs.commit }}
+              uses: actions/checkout@v4
+              with:
+                  ref: ${{ inputs.commit }}
+
+            - name: Build and push
+              uses: mr-smithers-excellent/docker-build-push@v6
+              with:
+                  dockerfile: server/Dockerfile
+                  directory: server
+                  image: ghcr.io/ente-io/server
+                  registry: ghcr.io
+                  enableBuildKit: true
+                  buildArgs: GIT_COMMIT=${GITHUB_SHA}
+                  tags: ${GITHUB_SHA}, latest
+                  username: ${{ github.actor }}
+                  password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/server-release.yml b/.github/workflows/server-release.yml
index 8f0281951a..fa02155300 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/server-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/server-release.yml
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ jobs:
     build:
         runs-on: ubuntu-latest
         steps:
-            - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-              name: Check out code
+            - name: Checkout code
+              uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-            - uses: mr-smithers-excellent/docker-build-push@v6
-              name: Build & Push
+            - name: Build and push
+              uses: mr-smithers-excellent/docker-build-push@v6
               with:
                   dockerfile: server/Dockerfile
                   directory: server
diff --git a/server/docs/docker.md b/server/docs/docker.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# Running using published Docker images
+
+Here we describe a way to run an Ente instance using a starter Docker compose
+file and using the pre-built Docker images that we publish. This method does not
+require you to clone the repository or build any images.
+
+1. Create a directory where you'll run Ente
+
+    ```sh
+    mkdir ente && cd ente
+    ```
+
+2. Copy the starter compose.yaml (and two of its support files) from the
+   repository onto your directory. You can do it by hand, or use (e.g.) curl
+
+    ```sh
+    # compose.yaml
+    curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ente-io/ente/main/server/compose.yaml
+
+    mkdir -p scripts/compose
+    cd scripts/compose
+
+    # scripts/compose/credentials.yaml
+    curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ente-io/ente/main/server/scripts/compose/credentials.yaml
+
+    # scripts/compose/minio-provision.sh
+    curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ente-io/ente/main/server/scripts/compose/minio-provision.sh
+
+    cd ../..
+    ```
+
+3. Modify `compose.yaml`. Instead of building from source, we want directly use
+   the published Docker image from `ghcr.io/ente-io/server`
+
+    ```diff
+    --- a/server/compose.yaml
+    +++ b/server/compose.yaml
+    @@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
+     services:
+       museum:
+    -    build:
+    -      context: .
+    -      args:
+    -        GIT_COMMIT: development-cluster
+    +    image: ghcr.io/ente-io/server
+    ```
+
+4. Create an (empty) configuration file. Yyou can later put your custom
+   configuration in this if needed.
+
+   ```sh
+   touch museum.yaml
+   ```
+
+4. That is all. You can now start everything.
+
+   ```sh
+   docker compose up
+   ```
+
+This will start a cluster containing:
+
+* Ente's own server
+* PostgresQL (DB)
+* MinIO (the S3 layer)
+
+For each of these, it'll use the latest published Docker image.
+
+Alternatively, if you only want to run Ente's server, you can directly pull and
+run the image we publish to **`ghcr.io/ente-io/server`**.
diff --git a/server/docs/publish.md b/server/docs/publish.md
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+# Publishing images
+
+There are two different images we publish - internal and external.
+
+## Internal
+
+The internal images can be built and run by triggering the "Server (release)"
+workflow. You can trigger it either from GitHub's UI on the Actions tab, or use
+the following command:
+
+    gh workflow run server-release.yml
+
+This will take the latest main, package it into a Docker image, and publish it
+to our Scaleway registry. From there, we can update our production instances to
+use this new image (see [deploy/README](../scripts/deploy/README.md)).
+
+## External
+
+Periodically, we can republish a new image from an existing known-to-be-good
+commit to the GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) so that it can be used by folks
+without needing to clone our repository just for building an image. For more
+details about the use case, see [docker.md](docker.md).
+
+To publish such an external image, firstly find the commit of the currently
+running production instance.
+
+    curl -s https://api.ente.io/ping | jq -r '.id'
+
+> We can publish from any arbitrary commit really, but by using the commit
+> that's already seen production for a few days, we avoid externally publishing
+> images with issues.
+
+Then, trigger the "Publish (server)" workflow, providing it the commit. You can
+trigger it either from GitHub's UI or using the `gh cli`. With the CLI, we can
+combine both these steps too.
+
+Once the workflow completes, the resultant image will be available at `ghcr.io/ente-io/server`.