Unable to create Instance resource

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Hello guys,
before jumping into the problem, want to say that you're making very good staff.

Describe the bug
So I have installed the operator in the namespace "harbor" using helm:
helm install harbor-operator mittwald/harbor-operator --namespace harbor --create-namespace
I found that the resource "Instancechartrepositories" was deployed along with the operator itself.

apiVersion: registries.mittwald.de/v1alpha2 kind: InstanceChartRepository metadata: labels: app.kubernetes.io/instance: harbor-operator app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm app.kubernetes.io/name: harbor-operator app.kubernetes.io/version: v1.6.3 helm.sh/chart: harbor-operator-1.6.3 name: harbor namespace: harbor spec: name: harbor url: https://helm.goharbor.io status: state: Ready
I tried to deploy instance resource but contanlly getting error in operator logs like followings:

sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).reconcileHandler /go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:329 sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).processNextWorkItem /go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:266 sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).Start.func2.2 /go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:227 2025-01-13T22:06:07Z INFO controllers.registries.Instance Reconciling Instance {"instance": {"name":"test-harbor","namespace":"harbor"}} 2025-01-13T22:06:07Z INFO controllers.registries.Instance Installing Helm chart {"instance": {"name":"test-harbor","namespace":"harbor"}, "instanceName": "test-harbor"} 2025-01-13T22:06:07Z ERROR Reconciler error {"controller": "instance", "controllerGroup": "registries.mittwald.de", "controllerKind": "Instance", "Instance": {"name":"test-harbor","namespace":"harbor"}, "namespace": "harbor", "name": "test-harbor", "reconcileID": "053b5b78-0ee9-45fd-8b8d-2b13bc dfd3a0", "error": "object required"} sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).reconcileHandler /go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:329 sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).processNextWorkItem /go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:266 sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).Start.func2.2 /go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:227

First, tried with this
apiVersion: registries.mittwald.de/v1alpha2 kind: Instance metadata: name: harbor-01 namespace: harbor spec: name: harbor-01 type: manual instanceURL: https://harbor.cp.telxira.io garbageCollection: cron: "0 * * * *" scheduleType: "Hourly" helmChart: release: harbor-01 chart: harbor/harbor version: v1.16.1 # equalling to Harbor OSS version v2.12.1 # see https://github.com/goharbor/harbor-helm/releases for a full list of supported versions namespace: harbor valuesYaml: ""

and after no luck tried this one:
https://github.com/mittwald/harbor-operator/blob/master/config/samples/registries_v1alpha2_instance.yaml

Also, I was thinking about adding the option to conditionally use the existing harbor instance (if there is no existing instance resource deployed in the k8s cluster.), for example taking URL and credentials from a secret existingHarbor.

Am I doing something wrong

Expected behavior
To be able to deploy harbor instance using this operator.

Kubernetes context
Kubernetes Server version: v1.30.5