diff --git a/management-api-agent-4.1.x/pom.xml b/management-api-agent-4.1.x/pom.xml
index fa4b414e..ed29564a 100644
--- a/management-api-agent-4.1.x/pom.xml
+++ b/management-api-agent-4.1.x/pom.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
             <artifactId>byte-buddy-agent</artifactId>
             <version>${bytebuddy.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.kubernetes</groupId>
+            <artifactId>client-java</artifactId>
+            <version>${kubernetes-client.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
diff --git a/management-api-agent-4.1.x/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/K8SeedProvider41x.java b/management-api-agent-4.1.x/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/K8SeedProvider41x.java
index d72d633f..e2b11f0d 100644
--- a/management-api-agent-4.1.x/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/K8SeedProvider41x.java
+++ b/management-api-agent-4.1.x/src/main/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/K8SeedProvider41x.java
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
+import com.datastax.mgmtapi.ShimLoader;
+import io.kubernetes.client.openapi.ApiClient;
+import io.kubernetes.client.openapi.Configuration;
+import io.kubernetes.client.openapi.apis.DiscoveryV1Api;
+import io.kubernetes.client.openapi.models.V1Endpoint;
+import io.kubernetes.client.openapi.models.V1EndpointConditions;
+import io.kubernetes.client.openapi.models.V1EndpointSlice;
+import io.kubernetes.client.util.Namespaces;
+import io.kubernetes.client.util.version.Version;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -23,41 +32,50 @@ public class K8SeedProvider41x implements SeedProvider
 {
     private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(K8SeedProvider41x.class);
 
+    private static final int MINIMUM_ENDPOINTSLICE_VERSION = 21;
+
     public K8SeedProvider41x() {
     }
 
     public List<InetAddressAndPort> getSeeds()
     {
-        Config conf;
-        try
-        {
-            conf = DatabaseDescriptor.loadConfig();
-        }
-        catch (Exception e)
-        {
-            throw new AssertionError(e);
-        }
-        String[] hosts = conf.seed_provider.parameters.get("seeds").split(",", -1);
-        List<InetAddressAndPort> seeds = new ArrayList<>(hosts.length);
-        for (String host : hosts)
-        {
-            try
-            {
-                // A name may resolve to multiple seed node IPs, as would be
-                // the case in Kubernetes when a headless service is used to
-                // represent the seed nodes in a cluster, which is why we use
-                // `getAllByName` here instead of `getByName`.
-                seeds.addAll(Arrays.asList(InetAddress.getAllByName(host.trim()))
-                        .stream()
-                        .map(n -> InetAddressAndPort.getByAddress(n))
-                        .collect(Collectors.toList()));
+        try {
+            org.apache.cassandra.config.Config conf = DatabaseDescriptor.loadConfig();
+            ApiClient client = io.kubernetes.client.util.Config.defaultClient();
+            Version version = new Version(client);
+            int kubernetesVersion = Integer.parseInt(version.getVersion().getMinor());
+            if(kubernetesVersion < MINIMUM_ENDPOINTSLICE_VERSION) {
+                logger.info("Kubernetes server version is too old, using legacy method to get the seeds");
+                return ShimLoader.instance.get().getK8SeedProvider().getSeeds();
             }
-            catch (UnknownHostException ex)
-            {
-                // not fatal... DD will bark if there end up being zero seeds.
-                logger.warn("Seed provider couldn't lookup host {}", host);
+
+            Configuration.setDefaultApiClient(client);
+
+            String[] hosts = conf.seed_provider.parameters.get("seeds").split(",", -1);
+            DiscoveryV1Api discoveryApi = new DiscoveryV1Api(client);
+
+            List<InetAddressAndPort> seeds = new ArrayList<>();
+            for (String host : hosts) {
+                V1EndpointSlice v1EndpointSlice = discoveryApi.readNamespacedEndpointSlice(host, Namespaces.getPodNamespace(), null);
+                for (V1Endpoint endpoint : v1EndpointSlice.getEndpoints()) {
+                    V1EndpointConditions conditions = endpoint.getConditions();
+                    if (Boolean.FALSE.equals(conditions.getReady())) {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    for (String address : endpoint.getAddresses()) {
+                        try {
+                            InetAddressAndPort inet = InetAddressAndPort.getByName(address);
+                            seeds.add(inet);
+                        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
+                            // This address simply isn't added
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
             }
+
+            return Collections.unmodifiableList(seeds);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new AssertionError(e);
         }
-        return Collections.unmodifiableList(seeds);
     }
 }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 011d0887..8af65f11 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
         <cassandra4.version>4.0.7</cassandra4.version>
         <docker.java.version>3.2.13</docker.java.version>
         <junit.version>4.13.2</junit.version>
+        <kubernetes-client.version>15.0.1</kubernetes-client.version>
         <bytebuddy.version>1.10.10</bytebuddy.version>
         <build.version.file>build_version.sh</build.version.file>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>