It seems the explanation of this task is not correct....this task trying to apply manifests as the task name indicates. Reported by: xmhubj https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.5/html/pipelines/understanding-openshift-pipelines#annotations:de167fe8-970b-461c-93db-4f67ffef1002
Closing per https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHDEVDOCS-3715?focusedCommentId=21560882&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-21560882.