External Secrets Operator paused releases and needs maintainers

ESO is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, etc.) to read information from external APIs and automatically inject the values into a Kubernetes Secret. It’s been a CNCF Sandbox project since July 2022.

Yesterday, its maintainer, Gustavo Fernandes de Carvalho, announced that, due to the project's unhealthy status (lack of long-term maintainers), there won’t be new External Secrets Operator releases until more volunteers join the project. This news caught a lot of attention in the Cloud Native community, and hopefully, the situation might improve. Feel free to join this effort:

- GitHub issue
- Reddit discussion

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