diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-charts.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-charts.yml
index 59d9fb2..659f2ff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-charts.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-charts.yml
@@ -9,29 +9,85 @@ name: Publish charts
 on:
   push:
     tags: ["*"]
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 defaults:
   run:
     shell: bash
 
+env:
+  CHARTPRESS_ARGS: >
+    --builder docker-buildx
+    --platform linux/amd64
+    --platform linux/arm64
+
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # chartpress requires git history to set chart version and image tags
+          # correctly
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+
+      - name: Decide to publish or not
+        id: publishing
+        shell: python
+        run: |
+          import os
+          repo = "${{ github.repository }}"
+          event = "${{ github.event_name }}"
+          ref = "${{ github.event.ref }}"
+          publishing = ""
+          if (
+              event == "push"
+              and (
+                  ref.startswith("refs/tags/")
+                  or ref == "refs/heads/main"
+              )
+          ):
+              publishing = "true"
+              print("Publishing chart")
+          with open(os.environ["GITHUB_OUTPUT"], "a") as f:
+              f.write(f"publishing={publishing}\n")
+
+      - name: Set up QEMU (for docker buildx)
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx (for chartpress multi-arch builds)
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+
+      - name: Install chart publishing dependencies (chartpress)
+        run: |
+          pip install -r requirements.txt
+          pip list
+
+          helm version
+      
+      - name: Enable chartpress publishing
+        if: steps.publishing.outputs.publishing
+        run:
+          echo CHARTPRESS_ARGS="${CHARTPRESS_ARGS} --push" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      
 
-      - name: Get the version
-        id: get_version
+      - name: build chart with chartpress
         run: |
-          echo "VERSION=${GITHUB_REF/refs\/tags\//}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          chartpress $CHARTPRESS_ARGS
 
       - name: Publish Helm charts
+        if: steps.publishing.outputs.publishing
         uses: stefanprodan/helm-gh-pages@master
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           charts_dir: "."
           charts_url: https://kbatch-dev.github.io/helm-chart
           linting: "off"
-          chart_version: ${{ env.VERSION }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-kbatch-chart.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-kbatch-chart.yaml
index 4ed1300..398fc35 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-kbatch-chart.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-kbatch-chart.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ defaults:
 
 jobs:
   test-install-chart:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     strategy:
       # Keep running even if one variation of the job fail
@@ -33,32 +33,44 @@ jobs:
         # k3s-version: https://github.com/rancher/k3s/tags
         # k3s-channel: https://update.k3s.io/v1-release/channels
         include:
-          - k3s-channel: v1.19
-          - k3s-channel: v1.16
+          - k3s-channel: v1.28
+          - k3s-channel: v1.31
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Install helm
-        run: |
-          curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # chartpress requires git history to set chart version and image tags
+          # correctly
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Lint chart's templates
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.11"
+          cache: pip
+      
+      - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          helm lint ./kbatch --strict --values kbatch/values.yaml
+          pip install -r requirements.txt
+          pip freeze
 
-      - name: Validate chart's templates can render
+      - name: Render chartpress
         run: |
-          helm template ./kbatch --values kbatch/values.yaml 1>/dev/null
+          chartpress
 
       # Starts a k8s cluster with NetworkPolicy enforcement and installs kubectl
       #
       # ref: https://github.com/jupyterhub/action-k3s-helm/
-      - uses: jupyterhub/action-k3s-helm@v1
+      - uses: jupyterhub/action-k3s-helm@v4
         with:
           k3s-channel: ${{ matrix.k3s-channel }}
           metrics-enabled: false
           traefik-enabled: false
-          docker-enabled: false
+          # docker-enabled required to access images built in chartpress stage
+          docker-enabled: true
+
+      - name: Lint chart's templates
+        run: |
+          helm lint ./kbatch --strict --values kbatch/values.yaml
 
       - name: Validate charts' rendered templates are valid k8s resources
         run: |
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 6f03eec..b70c444 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/rapidsai/frigate/
-    rev: v0.4.0 #  pre-commit autoupdate  - to keep the version up to date
+    # need a release after https://github.com/rapidsai/frigate/pull/74
+    rev: 0aca194f9011a656fd7211dbe2210511c94a36a5
     hooks:
       - id: frigate
   - repo: https://github.com/gruntwork-io/pre-commit
-    rev: v0.1.12 #  pre-commit autoupdate  - to keep the version up to date
+    rev: v0.1.23 #  pre-commit autoupdate  - to keep the version up to date
     hooks:
       - id: helmlint
+  - repo: https://github.com/jupyterhub/chartpress
+    rev: 2.2.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: chartpress
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..1ffef23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+kbatch/README.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chartpress.yaml b/chartpress.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4009f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chartpress.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+charts:
+  - name: kbatch
+    baseVersion: "0.5.0"
+    imagePrefix: ghcr.io/kbatch-dev/k8s-
+    repo:
+      git: kbatch-dev/helm-chart
+      published: https://kbatch-dev.github.io/helm-chart
+    images:
+      kbatch-proxy:
+        valuesPath: image
+        buildArgs:
+          # keep in sync with appVersion in Chart.yaml
+          kbatch_version: "0.4.2"
+      
diff --git a/images/kbatch-proxy/Dockerfile b/images/kbatch-proxy/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c497b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/kbatch-proxy/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ARG kbatch_version=set-by-chartress
+# for now, just retagging the image to match the chart
+# but this could be where we translate config from helm 
+FROM ghcr.io/kbatch-dev/kbatch-proxy:${kbatch_version}
diff --git a/kbatch/README.md b/kbatch/README.md
index e69de29..ab554d4 100644
--- a/kbatch/README.md
+++ b/kbatch/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+
+Kbatch-proxy
+===========
+
+A Helm chart for kbatch-proxy
+
+
+## Configuration
+
+The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Kbatch-proxy chart and their default values.
+
+| Parameter                | Description             | Default        |
+| ------------------------ | ----------------------- | -------------- |
+| `replicaCount` |  | `1` |
+| `app.jupyterhub_api_url` |  | `""` |
+| `app.jupyterhub_api_token` |  | `""` |
+| `app.jupyterhub_service_prefix` |  | `""` |
+| `app.extra_env` |  | `{}` |
+| `app.extraFiles` |  | `{}` |
+| `image.repository` |  | `"ghcr.io/kbatch-dev/k8s-kbatch-proxy"` |
+| `image.pullPolicy` |  | `"IfNotPresent"` |
+| `image.tag` |  | `"set-by-chartpress"` |
+| `imagePullSecrets` |  | `[]` |
+| `nameOverride` |  | `""` |
+| `fullnameOverride` |  | `""` |
+| `serviceAccount.create` |  | `true` |
+| `serviceAccount.annotations` |  | `{}` |
+| `serviceAccount.name` |  | `""` |
+| `podAnnotations` |  | `{}` |
+| `extraPodLabels` |  | `{}` |
+| `podSecurityContext` |  | `{}` |
+| `securityContext` |  | `{}` |
+| `service.type` |  | `"ClusterIP"` |
+| `service.port` |  | `80` |
+| `ingress.enabled` |  | `false` |
+| `ingress.className` |  | `""` |
+| `ingress.annotations` |  | `{}` |
+| `ingress.hosts` |  | `[{"host": "chart-example.local", "paths": [{"path": "/", "pathType": "ImplementationSpecific"}]}]` |
+| `ingress.tls` |  | `[]` |
+| `resources` |  | `{}` |
+| `autoscaling.enabled` |  | `false` |
+| `autoscaling.minReplicas` |  | `1` |
+| `autoscaling.maxReplicas` |  | `100` |
+| `autoscaling.targetCPUUtilizationPercentage` |  | `80` |
+| `nodeSelector` |  | `{}` |
+| `tolerations` |  | `[]` |
+| `affinity` |  | `{}` |
+
+
+
+---
+_Documentation generated by [Frigate](https://frigate.readthedocs.io)._
diff --git a/kbatch/values.yaml b/kbatch/values.yaml
index 25a7404..298e081 100644
--- a/kbatch/values.yaml
+++ b/kbatch/values.yaml
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ app:
   extraFiles: {}
 
 image:
-  repository: ghcr.io/kbatch-dev/kbatch-proxy
+  repository: ghcr.io/kbatch-dev/k8s-kbatch-proxy
   pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-  tag: ""
+  tag: "set-by-chartpress"
 
 imagePullSecrets: []
 nameOverride: ""
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f76e616
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+chartpress