diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly_release.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly_release.yml
index 1268edf1e259..9b11a0e6f356 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly_release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly_release.yml
@@ -107,3 +107,70 @@ jobs:
           pip install twine
           gcloud artifacts print-settings python --project=rasa-releases --repository=rasa --location=europe-west3 > ~/.pypirc
           twine upload --verbose --repository-url https://europe-west3-python.pkg.dev/rasa-releases/rasa/ ${{ format('{0}/dist/*', github.workspace) }} 
+
+  docker:
+    name: Build Docker
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    needs: run_script_and_tag_nightly_release
+    env:
+      GCLOUD_VERSION: "297.0.1"
+      # Registry used to store Docker images used for release purposes
+      DEV_REGISTRY: "europe-west3-docker.pkg.dev/rasa-ci-cd/rasa"
+      IMAGE_TAG: ${{ needs.run_script_and_tag_nightly_release.outputs.tag_name }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout git repository 🕝
+        uses: actions/checkout@ac593985615ec2ede58e132d2e21d2b1cbd6127c
+
+      - name: Free disk space
+        # tries to make sure we do not run out of disk space, see
+        # https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/BUG-Strange-quot-No-space-left-on-device-quot-IOExceptions-on/td-p/46101
+        run: |
+          sudo swapoff -a
+          sudo rm -f /swapfile
+          sudo apt clean
+          docker rmi $(docker image ls -aq)
+          df -h
+
+      - name: Read Poetry Version 🔢
+        run: |
+          echo "POETRY_VERSION=$(scripts/poetry-version.sh)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@4b4e9c3e2d4531116a6f8ba8e71fc6e2cb6e6c8c
+        id: buildx
+        with:
+          version: v0.5.1
+          driver: docker
+
+      - name: Copy Segment write key to the package
+        env:
+          RASA_TELEMETRY_WRITE_KEY: ${{ secrets.RASA_OSS_TELEMETRY_WRITE_KEY }}
+          RASA_EXCEPTION_WRITE_KEY: ${{ secrets.RASA_OSS_EXCEPTION_WRITE_KEY }}
+        run: |
+          ./scripts/write_keys_file.sh
+
+      - name: Build Docker image
+        run: |
+          docker build . -t rasa/rasa:base-localdev -f docker/Dockerfile.base
+          docker build . -t rasa/rasa:base-builder-localdev -f docker/Dockerfile.base-builder --build-arg IMAGE_BASE_NAME=rasa/rasa --build-arg POETRY_VERSION=${{ env.POETRY_VERSION }}
+          docker build . -t rasa/rasa:base-poetry -f docker/Dockerfile.base-poetry --build-arg IMAGE_BASE_NAME=rasa/rasa --build-arg BASE_IMAGE_HASH=localdev
+          docker build . -t rasa/rasa:${IMAGE_TAG} -f Dockerfile --build-arg IMAGE_BASE_NAME=rasa/rasa --build-arg BASE_IMAGE_HASH=localdev --build-arg BASE_BUILDER_IMAGE_HASH=localdev
+          docker tag rasa/rasa:${IMAGE_TAG} ${{env.DEV_REGISTRY}}/rasa:${IMAGE_TAG}
+
+      # Authenticate and push to the release registry
+      - id: 'auth-dev'
+        name: Authenticate with gcloud for dev registry 🎫
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@e8df18b60c5dd38ba618c121b779307266153fbf'
+        with:
+          credentials_json: '${{ secrets.RASA_OSS_RELEASE_ACCOUNT_KEY }}'
+
+      - name: Authenticate docker for dev registry 🎫
+        run: |
+          # Set up docker to authenticate via gcloud command-line tool.
+          gcloud auth configure-docker europe-west3-docker.pkg.dev
+
+      - name: Push image to release registry
+        run: |
+          docker push ${{env.DEV_REGISTRY}}/rasa:${IMAGE_TAG}