diff --git a/.github/workflows/goreleaser.yml b/.github/workflows/goreleaser.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2fb8f75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/goreleaser.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+name: publish github release artifacts with goreleaser
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: '*'
+jobs:
+  goreleaser:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: unshallow
+        run: git fetch --prune --unshallow
+      - name: setup-go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+        with:
+          go-version: 1.14
+      - name: capture current date
+        id: date
+        run: echo "::set-output name=date::$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S-%Z')"
+      - name: goreleaser
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v2
+        with:
+          version: latest
+          args: release --rm-dist
+        env:
+          DATE: ${{ steps.date.outputs.date }}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9a27c27f..0d29be51 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -32,3 +32,6 @@ tmp
 
 # prod config file
 config.toml
+
+# goreleaser output directory
+dist/
diff --git a/.goreleaser.yml b/.goreleaser.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..120ecc61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.goreleaser.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+before:
+  hooks:
+    - go mod download
+env:
+- CGO_ENABLED=0
+- GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org
+project_name: athens
+builds:
+- id: builds
+  goos:
+    - linux
+    - darwin
+  goarch:
+    - amd64
+  main: cmd/proxy/main.go
+  binary: athens
+  ldflags:
+    - -X "github.com/gomods/athens/pkg/build.version={{ .Tag }}"
+    - -X "github.com/gomods/athens/pkg/build.buildDate={{ .Env.DATE }}"
+checksum:
+  name_template: 'checksums.txt'
+snapshot:
+  name_template: "{{ .Tag }}-next"
+changelog:
+  sort: asc
+  filters:
+    exclude:
+    - '^docs:'
+    - '^test:'