How Maintainer Burnout Is Causing a Kubernetes Security Disaster

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…