External Secrets Operator is a very popular tool to sync secrets from your credentials storage into Kubernetes. Unfortunately, they have faced the same problem that many open source tools do: lack of resources to either do unpaid work, or hire someone to do things.

They have announced it on Reddit.

What does it mean for the project? Here's an excerpt from their post:

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What We’re Still Doing

✅ We’ll still review and merge community PRs

✅ Contributions will be available on the main branch

❌ We’re pausing all release activities: no new versions (including patches, majors, minors)

❌ We’ll stop responding to support issues and GitHub Discussions for now

How You Can Help

If your company depends on ESO - and many do - now is the time to step up. Whether you’re an individual contributor or part of an open source team, we’d love your help.

We’re open to onboarding new maintainers, defining ownership areas, and sharing responsibilities. You don’t need to be an expert - we’ll help you ramp up.

➡️ To get involved, please sign up using this form.

📚 You can also follow this GitHub Discussion for context.

We didn’t want to do this. But too many OSS projects are quietly dying because they’ve been taken for granted - used in production by thousands but maintained by a handful.
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