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Stability and Support

This page lists the status, timeline and policy for currently supported ESO releases and its providers. Please also see our deprecation policy that describes API versioning, deprecation and API surface.

External Secrets Operator

We are currently in beta and support only the latest release for the time being.

ESO Version Kubernetes Version
0.5.x 1.19 → 1.24
0.4.x 1.16 → 1.24
0.3.x 1.16 → 1.24

Provider Stability and Support Level

The following table describes the stability level of each provider and who's responsible.

Provider Stability Maintainer
AWS Secrets Manager stable external-secrets
AWS Parameter Store stable external-secrets
Hashicorp Vault stable external-secrets
GCP Secret Manager stable external-secrets
Azure Keyvault stable external-secrets
Kubernetes alpha external-secrets
IBM Secrets Manager alpha @knelasevero @sebagomez @ricardoptcosta
Yandex Lockbox alpha @AndreyZamyslov @knelasevero
Gitlab Project Variables alpha @Jabray5
Alibaba Cloud KMS alpha @ElsaChelala
Oracle Vault alpha @KianTigger @EladGabay
Akeyless alpha @renanaAkeyless
1Password alpha @SimSpaceCorp @snarlysodboxer
Generic Webhook alpha @willemm
senhasegura DevOps Secrets Management (DSM) alpha @lfraga

Provider Feature Support

The following table show the support for features across different providers.

Provider find by name find by tags metadataPolicy Fetch referent authentication store validation push secret
AWS Secrets Manager x x x
AWS Parameter Store x x x
Hashicorp Vault x x x
GCP Secret Manager x x x
Azure Keyvault x x x x x
Kubernetes x x x x
IBM Secrets Manager x
Yandex Lockbox x
Gitlab Project Variables x
Alibaba Cloud KMS x
Oracle Vault x
Akeyless x
1Password x x
Generic Webhook
senhasegura DSM x

Support Policy

We provide technical support and security / bug fixes for the above listed versions.

Technical support

We provide assistance for deploying/upgrading etc. on a best-effort basis. You can request support through the following channels:

Even though we have active maintainers and people assigned to this project, we kindly ask for patience when asking for support. We will try to get to priority issues as fast as possible, but there may be some delays.