diff --git a/cmd/manager/fips.go b/cmd/manager/fips.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db42a9878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/manager/fips.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+//go:build fips_enabled
+// +build fips_enabled
+
+// FIXME(rhmdnd): This was copied from openshift/boilerplate. We should
+// consider migrating our `make` targets to using boilerplate, which include
+// handy approaches and tools to enabling things consistently across
+// operators.
+
+package manager
+
+import (
+	_ "crypto/tls/fipsonly"
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+func init() {
+	fmt.Println("***** Starting with FIPS crypto enabled *****")
+}