diff --git a/airbyte-server/build.gradle b/airbyte-server/build.gradle
index 9ea1d34ca381..1b083e15ed46 100644
--- a/airbyte-server/build.gradle
+++ b/airbyte-server/build.gradle
@@ -1,28 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
     id 'application'
-    id 'maven-publish'
-    id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '6.1.0'
-}
-
-shadowJar {
-    zip64 true
-    mergeServiceFiles()
-    exclude 'META-INF/*.RSA'
-    exclude 'META-INF/*.SF'
-    exclude 'META-INF/*.DSA'
-    // Not stubbing this out adds 'all' to the end of the jar's name.
-    classifier = ''
-}
-
-publishing {
-    publications {
-        shadow(MavenPublication) { publication ->
-            project.shadow.component(publication)
-        }
-    }
-    repositories {
-        mavenLocal()
-    }
 }
 
 dependencies {
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 89f5e7ba9f44..36ea497cb63e 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -290,3 +290,49 @@ tasks.withType(AbstractArchiveTask) {
     preserveFileTimestamps = false
     reproducibleFileOrder = true
 }
+
+// Configure what Subprojects to publish.
+String[] toPublish = [
+        ':airbyte-analytics',
+        ':airbyte-api',
+        ':airbyte-commons',
+        ':airbyte-commons-docker',
+        ':airbyte-config:init',
+        ':airbyte-config:models',
+        ':airbyte-config:persistence',
+        ':airbyte-db',
+        ':airbyte-json-validation',
+        ':airbyte-json-notification',
+        ':airbyte-protocol:models',
+        ':airbyte-scheduler:models',
+        ':airbyte-scheduler:client',
+        ':airbyte-scheduler:persistence',
+        ':airbyte-server',
+        ':airbyte-workers'
+]
+configure(subprojects.findAll { toPublish.contains(it.getPath()) }) {
+    apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
+
+    publishing {
+        repositories {
+            publications {
+                // This block is present so Gradle knows to publish a Maven jar.
+                maven(MavenPublication) {
+                    // Gradle will by default use the subproject path as the group id and the subproject name as the artifact id.
+                    // e.g. the subproject :airbyte-scheduler:models is imported at io.airbyte.airbyte-config:persistence:<version-number>.
+                }
+            }
+
+            maven {
+                credentials {
+                    name 'cloudrepo'
+                    username System.getenv('CLOUDREPO_USER')
+                    password System.getenv('CLOUDREPO_PASSWORD')
+                }
+                url 'https://airbyte.mycloudrepo.io/repositories/airbyte-public-jars'
+            }
+
+            mavenLocal()
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tools/bin/release_version.sh b/tools/bin/release_version.sh
index 5f93576375e5..8947a48af839 100755
--- a/tools/bin/release_version.sh
+++ b/tools/bin/release_version.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ if [[ "$BRANCH" == "master" ]]; then
   exit 1;
 fi
 
+if [[ -z "${CLOUDREPO_USER}" ]]; then
+  echo 'CLOUDREPO_USER env var not set. Please retrieve the user email from the CloudRepo lastpass secret and run export CLOUDREPO_USER=<user_from_secret>.';
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
+if [[ -z "${CLOUDREPO_PASSWORD}" ]]; then
+  echo 'CLOUDREPO_PASSWORD env var not set. Please retrieve the user email from the CloudRepo lastpass secret and run export CLOUDREPO_PASSWORD=<password_from_secret>.';
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
 PREV_VERSION=$(grep VERSION .env | cut -d"=" -f2)
 
 PART_TO_BUMP=$1
@@ -30,6 +40,7 @@ echo "Bumped version from ${PREV_VERSION} to ${NEW_VERSION}"
 echo "Building and publishing version $NEW_VERSION for git revision $GIT_REVISION..."
 
 SUB_BUILD=PLATFORM ./gradlew clean composeBuild
+SUB_BUILD=PLATFORM ./gradlew clean publish
 VERSION=$NEW_VERSION GIT_REVISION=$GIT_REVISION docker-compose -f docker-compose.build.yaml build
 VERSION=$NEW_VERSION GIT_REVISION=$GIT_REVISION docker-compose -f docker-compose.build.yaml push
 echo "Completed building and publishing..."