Upgrade to Postgres 16.6 for client libraries, openssl 3.2

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2120



Merged-by: John Skarbek <jskarbek@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Robert Marshall <rmarshall@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>

Upgrade client libraries and programs to 16.6

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/16.6/

This does not affect servers, and allows access, backup and restore
for to servers at matching major version or earlier. This supports
functioning with OpenSSL 3.2+, as of PG 15.6+.

Changelog: changed

Update dependency aws/aws-cli to v1.35.21

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2089



Merged-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Clemens Beck <cbeck@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Changelog: changed

Document how to test exiftool in CNG

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2093



Merged-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Evan Read <eread@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Hossein Pursultani <hpursultani@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Hossein Pursultani <hpursultani@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Evan Read <eread@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: João Cunha <j.a.cunha@gmail.com>

Update dependency exiftool/exiftool to v12.99

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2081



Merged-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Update moby/buildkit Docker tag to v0.17.1

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2094



Merged-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: João Alexandre Cunha <j.a.cunha@gmail.com>
Approved-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Docs: ADR for use of rpm-verify-fips in CNG

Closes #2113

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2088



Merged-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Dustin Collins <714871-dustinmm80@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Evan Read <eread@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Dustin Collins <714871-dustinmm80@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>

Add ADR recoding decision to use CDF's CI components for verifying our
FIPS images.

Changelog: changed

CI: update path to CDF rpm-verify-fips component

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2086



Merged-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Clemens Beck <cbeck@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>

Update dependency kubectl to v1.31.2

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2082



Merged-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Hossein Pursultani <hpursultani@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Update the project path to the CDF's components, as included for
`rpm-fips-verify`.

Update dependency gitlab-org/container-registry to v4.13.0-gitlab

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2083



Merged-by: Suleimi Ahmed <sahmed@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: João Pereira <jpereira@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Suleimi Ahmed <sahmed@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Update Rubygems and Bundler

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/1985



Merged-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: João Alexandre Cunha <j.a.cunha@gmail.com>
Approved-by: Balasankar 'Balu' C <balasankar@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Update dependency aws/aws-cli to v1.35.20

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2079



Merged-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Dustin Collins <714871-dustinmm80@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Changelog: changed

Update moby/buildkit Docker tag to v0.17.0

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2071



Merged-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Clemens Beck <cbeck@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: GitLab Renovate Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com>

Update CONTRIBUTING.md

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2077



Merged-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Alec Xu <axu@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Lin Jen-Shin <jen-shin@gitlab.com>

Changelog: changed

Changelog: changed

Changelog: changed

[CI] Disable Buildx cluster use for Autodeploy pipelines

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2078



Merged-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Ryan Egesdahl <regesdahl@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Andrew Patterson <apatterson@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Dmytro Makovey <dmakovey@gitlab.com>

Set buildkit image in all pipelines

Closes #2092

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/merge_requests/2073



Merged-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Dmytro Makovey <dmakovey@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Jason Plum <jplum@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Clemens Beck <cbeck@gitlab.com>