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+#### Project Status: Sunset
+The Cassandra-operator is no longer supported. If you are looking for an Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, please check out the operator from the K8ssandra project called [cass-operator](https://github.com/k8ssandra/cass-operator). 
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 ### Kubernetes Operator for Cassandra
 
 - Website: https://www.instaclustr.com/
 - Wiki: https://github.com/instaclustr/cassandra-operator/wiki
 - Documentation: https://www.instaclustr.com/support/documentation/
 
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-#### Project Status: Sunset
-The Cassandra-operator is currently being sunsetted and will be archived once a community (Apache) Cassandra operator is released. If you are looking for an Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, please check out the operator from Orange called [casskop](https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/casskop) or from Datastax called [cass-operator](https://github.com/datastax/cass-operator). 
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 The Cassandra Operator manages Cassandra clusters deployed to [Kubernetes](http://kubernetes.io) and automates tasks related to operating a Cassandra cluster.
 
 Currently user-facing, Cassandra cluster objects are created as [Kubernetes Custom Resources](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/extend-api-custom-resource-definitions/).