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# Connect Confluent Platform Components to Confluent Cloud

You can connect your existing Confluent Platform components to [Confluent Cloud](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/). For detailed instructions, click the link
for the component you want to connect.

- [Confluent Control Center](c3-cloud-config.md#cloud-c3-config)
- [Clients](clients-cloud-config.md#cloud-connect-clients)
- [Connect](connect-cloud-config.md#cloud-connect-config)
- [REST Proxy](kafka-rest-config.md#cloud-kafka-rest-config)
- [ksqlDB](ksql-cloud-config.md#install-ksql-ccloud)

Confluent for Kubernetes provides a cloud-native and automated way to deploy Confluent Platform components
connected to Confluent Cloud. For details and links to examples, see [Hybrid Deployment
of Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud](https://docs.confluent.io/operator/current/co-hybrid.html#hybrid-deployment-of-cp-and-ccloud).

## Component examples and resources

- To view a working example of hybrid Apache Kafka® clusters from self-hosted to Confluent Cloud, see [cp-demo](/platform/current/tutorials/cp-demo/docs/index.html).
- To try out a development Docker environment with Confluent Cloud connection examples for all Confluent Platform components, see
  [this example](https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-all-in-one/tree/latest/cp-all-in-one-cloud).
- For example configs for all Confluent Platform components and clients connecting to Confluent Cloud, see [template examples for components](https://github.com/confluentinc/examples/tree/latest/ccloud/template_delta_configs).
- To look at all the code used in the Confluent Cloud example, see the [Confluent Cloud demo examples](https://github.com/confluentinc/examples/tree/latest/ccloud).
