(PE-36943) Add release process documentation

README.md

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 ## Expectations and support
 
-While the peadm module was initially built by the Puppet Solutions Architecture team to streamline particularly large and complex Puppet Enterprise deployments, but has matured to a point where we believe that users with a reasonable understanding of Puppet Enterprise architecture can use it on their own. 
+While the peadm module was initially built by the Puppet Solutions Architecture team to streamline particularly large and complex Puppet Enterprise deployments, but has matured to a point where we believe that users with a reasonable understanding of Puppet Enterprise architecture can use it on their own.
 
 As a Puppet Enterprise customer this tool is **supported** through Puppet Enterprise's standard and premium [support.puppet.com](https://support.puppet.com) service, and if you have questions or need assistance, you are welcome to reach out to your Support team for help, or to talk to your Sales or Technical Account Manager contacts to arrange a chat with one of us on the Solutions Architect team.
 
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Documentation pertaining to additional uses of peadm.
 * [Classification](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm/blob/main/documentation/classification.md)
 * [Testing](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm/blob/main/documentation/pre_post_checks.md)
 * [Docker Based Examples](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm/blob/main/documentation/docker_examples.md)
+* [Release Process](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm/blob/main/documentation/release_process.md)
 
 ## Getting Help
 

documentation/release_process.md

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+# Release Process
+
+## Overview
+
+- [ ] Update PE version support in tests, source and create a new Pull Request with the changes (if needed).
+- [ ] Ask for a review and merge the Pull Request
+- [ ] Tag all Closed Pull Requests that are included in the release with the appropriate labels.
+- [ ] Kick off the [Release Prep](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm/actions/workflows/release-prep.yml) action selecting the branch you want to release from and enter the release version number.
+- [ ] Review and merge the Release PREP Pull Request. Make sure to verify the checklist items in the Pull Request description.
+- [ ] Once the Release Prep Pull Request is merged, Kick off  [Publish module](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm/actions/workflows/release.yml) action selecting the branch you created the Release Prep Pull Request from.
+- [ ] Check Puppet Forge to make sure the module was published