diff --git a/examples/cassandra/image/kubernetes-cassandra.jar b/examples/cassandra/image/kubernetes-cassandra.jar
index 72a6b33a75e..77e65b04a06 100644
Binary files a/examples/cassandra/image/kubernetes-cassandra.jar and b/examples/cassandra/image/kubernetes-cassandra.jar differ
diff --git a/examples/cassandra/java/pom.xml b/examples/cassandra/java/pom.xml
index b7a131907e0..8a95eafd0b4 100644
--- a/examples/cassandra/java/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/cassandra/java/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>io.k8s.cassandra</groupId>
   <artifactId>kubernetes-cassandra</artifactId>
-  <version>0.0.4</version>
+  <version>0.0.5</version>
   <build>
     <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
     <plugins>
diff --git a/examples/cassandra/java/src/io/k8s/cassandra/KubernetesSeedProvider.java b/examples/cassandra/java/src/io/k8s/cassandra/KubernetesSeedProvider.java
index e4bf73be911..b194707d480 100644
--- a/examples/cassandra/java/src/io/k8s/cassandra/KubernetesSeedProvider.java
+++ b/examples/cassandra/java/src/io/k8s/cassandra/KubernetesSeedProvider.java
@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ public class KubernetesSeedProvider implements SeedProvider {
 
     public List<InetAddress> getSeeds() {
         List<InetAddress> list = new ArrayList<InetAddress>();
-        String host = getEnvOrDefault("KUBERNETES_API_HOST","https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local");
+        //String host = "https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local";
+        String proto = "https://";
+        String host = getEnvOrDefault("KUBERNETES_PORT_443_TCP_ADDR", "kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local");
+        String port = getEnvOrDefault("KUBERNETES_PORT_443_TCP_PORT", "443");
         String serviceName = getEnvOrDefault("CASSANDRA_SERVICE", "cassandra");
         String podNamespace = getEnvOrDefault("POD_NAMESPACE", "default");
         String path = String.format("/api/v1/namespaces/%s/endpoints/", podNamespace);
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ public class KubernetesSeedProvider implements SeedProvider {
             SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
             ctx.init(null, trustAll, new SecureRandom());
 
-            URL url = new URL(host + path + serviceName);
+            URL url = new URL(proto + host + ":" + port + path + serviceName);
             logger.info("Getting endpoints from " + url);
             HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();