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+> [!CAUTION]
+> **This repository is no longer maintained.**  Please consider Adobe's fork at [https://github.com/adobe/koperator/](https://github.com/adobe/koperator/)
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 # Koperator
 
 Koperator is an open-source operator that automates the provisioning, management, and autoscaling of Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes.