diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes/Makefile b/deploy/kubernetes/Makefile
index e4d8b474908..6247c9461e1 100644
--- a/deploy/kubernetes/Makefile
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-ALL=elastic-agent-standalone elastic-agent-managed
+SHELL := /bin/bash
 
-BEAT_VERSION=$(shell grep '^:stack-version:' ../../version/docs/version.asciidoc | cut -c 17- )
-BRANCH_VERSION=$(shell grep '^:doc-branch:' ../../version/docs/version.asciidoc | cut -c 14- )
+ALL=elastic-agent-standalone elastic-agent-managed
+WORKSPACE=$(shell git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+BEAT_VERSION=$(shell grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\-[a-zA-Z]+[0-9]+)?' "${WORKSPACE}/version/version.go")
+BRANCH_VERSION=$(shell cut -d. -f1-2 <<< '${BEAT_VERSION}')
 
 #variables needed for ci-create-kubernetes-templates-pull-request
 ELASTIC_AGENT_REPO=kibana
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-managed-kubernetes.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-managed-kubernetes.yaml
index 4e9399ec6c6..44df212a629 100644
--- a/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-managed-kubernetes.yaml
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-managed-kubernetes.yaml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ spec:
       dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
       containers:
         - name: elastic-agent
-          image: docker.elastic.co/beats/elastic-agent:8.8.1
+          image: docker.elastic.co/beats/elastic-agent:8.12.0
           env:
             # Set to 1 for enrollment into Fleet server. If not set, Elastic Agent is run in standalone mode
             - name: FLEET_ENROLL
diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-standalone-kubernetes.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-standalone-kubernetes.yaml
index 244003075e0..125936a37b3 100644
--- a/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-standalone-kubernetes.yaml
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-standalone-kubernetes.yaml
@@ -683,13 +683,13 @@ spec:
       #      - -c
       #      - >-
       #        mkdir -p /etc/elastic-agent/inputs.d &&
-      #        wget -O - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/archive/main.tar.gz | tar xz -C /etc/elastic-agent/inputs.d --strip=5 "elastic-agent-main/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-standalone/templates.d"
+      #        wget -O - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/archive/8.12.tar.gz | tar xz -C /etc/elastic-agent/inputs.d --strip=5 "elastic-agent-8.12/deploy/kubernetes/elastic-agent-standalone/templates.d"
       #    volumeMounts:
       #      - name: external-inputs
       #        mountPath: /etc/elastic-agent/inputs.d
       containers:
         - name: elastic-agent-standalone
-          image: docker.elastic.co/beats/elastic-agent:8.8.1
+          image: docker.elastic.co/beats/elastic-agent:8.12.0
           args: ["-c", "/etc/elastic-agent/agent.yml", "-e"]
           env:
             # The basic authentication username used to connect to Elasticsearch