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+package:
+  name: karpenter-1.9
+  version: "1.9.0"
+  epoch: 0 # CVE-2025-61729
+  description: Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
+  copyright:
+    - license: Apache-2.0
+  dependencies:
+    provides:
+      - karpenter=${{package.full-version}}
+      - karpenter-provider-aws=${{package.full-version}}
+
+pipeline:
+  - uses: git-checkout
+    with:
+      repository: https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws
+      tag: v${{package.version}}
+      expected-commit: e7e13271922287f916b3d133505205048a74af4b
+
+  - uses: go/build
+    with:
+      packages: ./cmd/controller
+      output: controller
+      ldflags: -X=sigs.k8s.io/karpenter/pkg/operator.Version=${{package.version}}
+
+update:
+  enabled: true
+  github:
+    identifier: aws/karpenter-provider-aws
+    tag-filter: v1.9.
+    strip-prefix: v
+
+test:
+  environment:
+    environment:
+      # Required for test, otherwise application returns error when running --help.
+      SYSTEM_NAMESPACE: default
+  pipeline:
+    - name: Check application responds to --help command
+      runs: controller --help