diff --git a/.github/workflows/action-conda-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/action-conda-publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c28f58267f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/action-conda-publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+name: Anaconda Publish
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+  # use this to test before actual release and publish
+  # push:
+  #   branches:
+  #   - some_test_branch
+
+jobs:
+
+  publish:
+    name: publish / python-3.8 / ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: goanpeca/setup-miniconda@v1
+        with:
+          auto-update-conda: true
+          python-version: "3.8"
+          miniconda-version: "latest"
+          channels: conda-forge
+      - name: Show conda config
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          conda info
+          conda list
+          conda config --show-sources
+          conda config --show
+      - name: Python info
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          which python
+          python --version
+      - name: Install build dependencies
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: conda install -y conda-build conda-verify ripgrep anaconda-client
+      - name: Build the conda package
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          conda config --set anaconda_upload no
+          export BUILD_FOLDER=/tmp/esmvalcore/_build
+          mkdir -p $BUILD_FOLDER
+          conda build package \
+            --channel esmvalgroup --channel conda-forge \
+            --croot $BUILD_FOLDER \
+      - name: Push the package to anaconda cloud
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          export BUILD_FOLDER=/tmp/esmvalcore/_build
+          # use --label test before actual release and check all works well
+          anaconda --token ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_TOKEN }} upload --user esmvalgroup $BUILD_FOLDER/noarch/*.tar.bz2
+  verify:
+    name: verify / python-${{ matrix.python-version }} / ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: ['ubuntu-latest']  # may extent to osx in the future
+        python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8"]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    needs: publish
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: "0"
+      - uses: goanpeca/setup-miniconda@v1
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          miniconda-version: "latest"
+          channels: esmvalgroup,conda-forge
+      - shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: conda --version
+      - shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: which conda
+      - shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: python -V
+      - shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: conda install esmvalcore
+      - shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: esmvaltool --help
+      - shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: esmvaltool version
diff --git a/doc/changelog.rst b/doc/changelog.rst
index 78330c519d..64f1a84b4e 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.rst
+++ b/doc/changelog.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ Improvements
 -  Update CMIP6 tables to 6.9.32 (`#706 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/706>`__) `Javier Vegas-Regidor <https://github.com/jvegasbsc>`__
 -  Default config-user path now set in config-user read function (`#791 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/791>`__) `Javier Vegas-Regidor <https://github.com/jvegasbsc>`__
 -  Add custom variable lweGrace (`#692 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/692>`__) `bascrezee <https://github.com/bascrezee>`__
+- Create Github Actions workflow to build and deploy on Test PyPi and PyPi (`#820 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/820>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+- Build and publish the esmvalcore package to conda via Github Actions workflow (`#825 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/825>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
 
 Fixes for datasets
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