diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 835f16f66..1aa19b6c0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ jobs:
           echo "0e430493521ce387ca04d79b26646a86f92886dbcceb44985bb71082a9530ca5  /tmp/ah.tar.gz" | shasum --check
           sudo tar --extract --file /tmp/ah.tar.gz --directory /usr/local/bin ah
 
+      - name: Set up Helm Docs
+        uses: gabe565/setup-helm-docs-action@d5c35bdc9133cfbea3b671acadf50a29029e87c2 # v1.0.4
+
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # v4.1.7
         with:
@@ -236,16 +239,10 @@ jobs:
           ct lint --config .ct.yaml
           ah lint --path charts/ingress-nginx
 
-      - name: Run helm-docs
+      - name: Check docs
         run: |
-          GOBIN=$PWD GO111MODULE=on go install github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs/cmd/helm-docs@v1.11.0
-          ./helm-docs --chart-search-root=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/charts
-          DIFF=$(git diff ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md)
-          if [ ! -z "$DIFF" ]; then
-            echo "Please use helm-docs in your clone, of your fork, of the project, and commit a updated README.md for the chart. https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/main/RELEASE.md#d-edit-the-valuesyaml-and-run-helm-docs"
-          fi
-          git diff --exit-code
-          rm -f ./helm-docs
+          helm-docs --chart-search-root charts
+          git diff --exit-code charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
 
   chart-test:
     name: Chart / Test
@@ -265,12 +262,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # v4.1.7
 
-      - name: Setup Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
-        with:
-          go-version: ${{ needs.build.outputs.golangversion }}
-          check-latest: true
-
       - name: cache
         uses: actions/download-artifact@fa0a91b85d4f404e444e00e005971372dc801d16 # v4.1.8
         with:
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 73108f627..5eac1a800 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-helm-docs
 # OSX
 ._*
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/MANUAL_RELEASE.md b/MANUAL_RELEASE.md
index b1c1fd068..8a6b10bc1 100644
--- a/MANUAL_RELEASE.md
+++ b/MANUAL_RELEASE.md
@@ -226,19 +226,18 @@ Promoting the images basically means that images, that were pushed to staging co
           ```
 
 ### d. Edit the values.yaml and run helm-docs
+
   - [Fields to edit in values.yaml](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/main/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml)
 
     - tag
     - digest
 
-  - [helm-docs](https://github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs) is a tool that generates the README.md for a helm-chart automatically. In the CI pipeline workflow of github actions (/.github/workflows/ci.yaml), you can see how helm-docs is used. But the CI pipeline is not designed to make commits back into the project. So we need to run helm-docs manually, and check in the resulting autogenerated README.md at the path /charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
+  - [helm-docs](https://github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs) is a tool that generates the README.md for a Helm chart automatically. In the CI pipeline workflow of GitHub actions (.github/workflows/ci.yaml), you can see how helm-docs is used. The CI pipeline is not designed to make commits back into the project, so we need to run helm-docs manually and commit the resulting generated README.md. You can obtain a recent version of the helm-docs binary here: https://github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs/releases.
     ```
-          GOBIN=$PWD GO111MODULE=on go install github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs/cmd/helm-docs@v1.11.0
-          ./helm-docs --chart-search-root=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/charts
-          git diff --exit-code
-          rm -f ./helm-docs
+    helm-docs --chart-search-root charts
+    git diff charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
     ```
-    Watchout for mistakes like leaving the helm-docs executable in your clone workspace or not checking the new README.md manually etc.
+    Take care of not leaving the helm-docs executable in your clone workspace or not committing the new README.md.
 
 ### e. Edit the static manifests
 
diff --git a/magefiles/steps/helm.go b/magefiles/steps/helm.go
index 245f5e1c0..73c9b0b3b 100644
--- a/magefiles/steps/helm.go
+++ b/magefiles/steps/helm.go
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ func runHelmDocs() error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	err = sh.RunV("helm-docs", "--chart-search-root=${PWD}/charts")
+	err = sh.RunV("helm-docs", "--chart-search-root", "${PWD}/charts")
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ func installHelmDocs() error {
 	utils.Info("HELM Install HelmDocs")
 	g0 := sh.RunCmd("go")
 
-	err := g0("install", "github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs/cmd/helm-docs@v1.11.0")
+	err := g0("install", "github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs/cmd/helm-docs@latest")
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}