error getting apply options: must specify one of -f and -k

[jcanseco]

What happened:
Our operator started failing to apply manifests and logging the following error:

{"severity":"error","timestamp":"2022-06-09T21:00:50.772Z","msg":"applying manifest","error":"error getting apply options: must specify one of -f and -k"}

This started happening after we bumped our kubebuilder-declarative-pattern dependency to commit fe5be94.

What you expected to happen:
For our operator to continue to be able to apply manifests successfully.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
You can reproduce the same error by going through the guestbook operator example.

Make sure to update the kubebuilder-declarative-pattern dependency before you run the controller:

go get -u sigs.k8s.io/kubebuilder-declarative-pattern@fe5be9431eae158f86f9de23000a9a2ec06745fc
go mod tidy

After running make run, you'll see the following error:

1.6548110787980578e+09  ERROR   applying manifest       {"error": "error getting apply options: must specify one of -f and -k"}

Anything else we need to know?:
This issue is currently blocking us from bumping our controller-runtime dependency to get a fix that we need to stop our unit tests from failing frequently due to flakes.

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): Client v1.24.1, Server v1.22.8-gke.201
• OS (e.g: cat /etc/os-release): Debian
• Kernel (e.g. uname -a):
• Go version (e.g. go version): Go 1.17.3
• Others: