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Abstract
Kubernetes, the go-to container orchestration solution, has swiftly become
the industry standard for managing containers at scale in production
environments. Its widespread adoption, particularly in large organizations, has
elevated its profile and made it a prime target for security concerns. This
study aims to understand how prevalent security concerns are among Kubernetes
practitioners by analyzing all Kubernetes posts made on Stack Overflow over the
past four years. We gathered security insights from Kubernetes practitioners
and transformed the data through machine learning algorithms for cleaning and
topic clustering. Subsequently, we used advanced AI tools to automatically
generate topic descriptions, thereby reducing the analysis process. In our
analysis, security-related posts ranked as the fourth most prevalent topic in
these forums, comprising 12.3% of the overall discussions. Furthermore, the
findings indicated that although the frequency of security discussions has
remained constant, their popularity and influence have experienced significant
growth. Kubernetes users consistently prioritize security topics, and the
rising popularity of security posts reflects a growing interest and concern for
maintaining secure Kubernetes clusters. The findings underscore key security
issues that warrant further research and the development of additional tools to
resolve them.