I think it would be nice if 'release process' could include the build and bundling of the yaml need to do install.
All that is really needed is for the yaml to be build and hosted in git repo, would make it faster and easier to try it out
and also handy if installing using i.e. ArgoCD or flux etc ...
I will add ref instructions and example for ArgoCD itself if it helps ?
ArgoCd Getting started guide
Also in other case maybe update doc with instructions to use
for building
kubectl kustomize config/default
for deploy
kubectl apply -k config/default
instead of / in addition to
kustomize build config/default | kubectl apply -f -