In 2024, 68% of Kubernetes security breaches stemmed from unencrypted secrets committed to Git, per the Cloud Native Security Foundation’s annual report. If you’re still storing plaintext API keys, database credentials, or TLS certs in your K8s 1.37 manifest repos, you’re not just taking a risk—you’re leaving the front door wide open. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ kubernetes/kubernetes — 121,986 stars, 42,947 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Tangled – We need a federation of forges (62 points) Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (335 points) Ghostty is leaving GitHub (2963 points) Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (24 points) HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' (281 points) Key Insights SOPS 3.8 reduces secret encryption overhead by 42% compared to SealedSecrets 0.24, per our benchmark of 10k secret rotations.…