feat: add CRD tarball as release asset

ci: upgrade action-gh-release to v2.3.2 in release workflow for improved functionality

refactor: change CRD packaging from tarball to single YAML file in Makefile and update release workflow accordingly

feat: enhance CRD packaging in Makefile to support both yq and manual concatenation methods

Author: hervedombya

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -64,3 +64,31 @@ jobs:
       push-image: true
     secrets:
       GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
+
+  upload-crds:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    needs: [precheck]
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          ref: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+
+      - name: Setup Go with private modules
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-go-private
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+          gh-token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
+
+      - name: Package CRDs
+        run: make package-crds VERSION=${{ needs.precheck.outputs.tag }}
+
+      - name: Upload CRD Assets
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2.3.2
+        with:
+          files: |
+            dist/ui-operator-crds-${{ needs.precheck.outputs.tag }}.yaml
+          tag_name: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}

Makefile

@@ -98,6 +98,29 @@ help: ## Display this help.
 manifests: controller-gen ## Generate WebhookConfiguration, ClusterRole and CustomResourceDefinition objects.
 	$(CONTROLLER_GEN) rbac:roleName=manager-role crd webhook paths="./..." output:crd:artifacts:config=config/crd/bases
 
+.PHONY: package-crds
+package-crds: manifests ## Package CRDs into a single YAML file
+	mkdir -p dist
+	@echo "# UI Operator CRDs - Version $(VERSION)" > dist/ui-operator-crds-$(VERSION).yaml
+	@echo "# Generated on $$(date)" >> dist/ui-operator-crds-$(VERSION).yaml
+	@if command -v yq >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
+		echo "Using yq to merge YAML files..."; \
+		yq eval-all 'select(. != null)' config/crd/bases/*.yaml >> dist/ui-operator-crds-$(VERSION).yaml; \
+	else \
+		echo "Using manual YAML concatenation with proper separators..."; \
+		first=true; \
+		for file in config/crd/bases/*.yaml; do \
+			if [ "$$first" = true ]; then \
+				first=false; \
+			else \
+				echo "---" >> dist/ui-operator-crds-$(VERSION).yaml; \
+			fi; \
+			echo "# Source: $$(basename $$file)" >> dist/ui-operator-crds-$(VERSION).yaml; \
+			cat $$file >> dist/ui-operator-crds-$(VERSION).yaml; \
+			echo "" >> dist/ui-operator-crds-$(VERSION).yaml; \
+		done; \
+	fi
+
 .PHONY: generate
 generate: controller-gen ## Generate code containing DeepCopy, DeepCopyInto, and DeepCopyObject method implementations.
 	$(CONTROLLER_GEN) object:headerFile="hack/boilerplate.go.txt" paths="./..."