build: add linux release automation and release automation validation

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Description of changes

• Adds Linux release automation
• Adds release automation validation

Testing done

• local testing
• testing on this PR itself (and the prior PR #1140, which I closed in favor of this one since this is from an origin branch)

Contribution agreement

• [x] I've reviewed the guidance in CONTRIBUTING.md

License Acceptance

By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.