How Maintainer Burnout Is Causing a Kubernetes Security Disaster

September 12, 2025

, By The New Stack

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Like far too many open source projects, we don’t give Kubernetes External Secrets Operator (ESO) enough attention. We just assume the program will be kept up-to-date and that it will always be there. That’s a big mistake. Recently, one of ESO’s maintainers wrote on Reddit that “the contributor base hasn’t scaled with the user base. Right now, a very small team of maintainers is responsible for everything.” Indeed, according to Rasheed Amir, CEO of Stakater, a Swedish Kubernetes consulting company, on LinkedIn, “There’s only…

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How Maintainer Burnout Is Causing a Kubernetes Security Disaster

September 12, 2025

, Published By The New Stack

Like far too many open source projects, we don’t give Kubernetes External Secrets Operator (ESO) enough attention. We just assume the program will be kept up-to-date and that it will always be there. That’s a big mistake. Recently, one of ESO’s maintainers wrote on Reddit that “the contributor base hasn’t scaled with the user base. Right now, a very small team of maintainers is responsible for everything.” Indeed, according to Rasheed Amir, CEO of Stakater, a Swedish Kubernetes consulting company, on LinkedIn, “There’s only…

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