diff --git a/trustyai-service/README.md b/trustyai-service/README.md
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+# TrustyAI Service
+This deployment manifest has been deprecated as part of the migration to the [TrustyAI operator](../trustyai-service-operator/README.md)
diff --git a/trustyai-service/base/kustomization.yaml b/trustyai-service/base/kustomization.yaml
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+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+- trustyai-configmap.yaml
diff --git a/trustyai-service/base/trustyai-configmap.yaml b/trustyai-service/base/trustyai-configmap.yaml
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+kind: ConfigMap
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: trustyai-service-odh-manifest-deprecated
+data:
+   MESSAGE: "THE TRUSTYAI-SERVICE-OPERATOR HAS REPLACED THE TRUSTYAI-SERVICE MANIFEST IN ODH. THE TRUSTYAI-SERVICE MANIFEST HAS BEEN DEPRECATED AS OF ODH 1.8 RELEASE"