diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index d668d2eff..b7d3a8875 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ plugins {
 apply from: 'gradle/formatting.gradle'
 apply plugin: 'opensearch.opensearchplugin'
 apply plugin: 'opensearch.rest-test'
+apply plugin: 'opensearch.pluginzip'
 
 ext {
     isSnapshot = "true" == System.getProperty("build.snapshot", "true")
@@ -80,6 +81,29 @@ allprojects {
     }
 }
 
+publishing {
+    publications {
+        pluginZip(MavenPublication) { publication ->
+            pom {
+                name = "opensearch-knn"
+                description = "OpenSearch k-NN plugin"
+                licenses {
+                    license {
+                        name = "The Apache License, Version 2.0"
+                        url = "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"
+                    }
+                }
+                developers {
+                    developer {
+                        name = "OpenSearch"
+                        url = "https://github.com/opensearch-project/k-NN"
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 compileJava {
     options.compilerArgs.addAll(["-processor", 'lombok.launch.AnnotationProcessorHider$AnnotationProcessor'])
 }
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index e495461a2..2ff2bc2b6 100644
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ make opensearchknn_faiss opensearchknn_nmslib
 
 cd $work_dir
 ./gradlew assemble --no-daemon --refresh-dependencies -DskipTests=true -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT -Dbuild.version_qualifier=$QUALIFIER
+./gradlew publishPluginZipPublicationToZipStagingRepository -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT -Dbuild.version_qualifier=$QUALIFIER
 
 # Add lib to zip
 zipPath=$(find "$(pwd)" -path \*build/distributions/*.zip)
@@ -118,3 +119,6 @@ cd $work_dir
 echo "COPY ${distributions}/*.zip"
 mkdir -p $OUTPUT/plugins
 cp ${distributions}/*.zip $OUTPUT/plugins
+
+mkdir -p $OUTPUT/maven/org/opensearch
+cp -r ./build/local-staging-repo/org/opensearch/. $OUTPUT/maven/org/opensearch
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 483465c89..9056e382e 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ rootProject.name = 'opensearch-knn'
 include ":qa"
 include ":qa:rolling-upgrade"
 include ":qa:restart-upgrade"
+