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# Operate and Deploy Flink Statements with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink

Confluent provides tools for developing, deploying, and operating
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®.

## Develop

- [Development Lifecycle](development-lifecycle.md#flink-development-lifecycle): Organize your
  project from development through production.
- [Confluent for VS Code](../../client-apps/vs-code-extension.md#cc-vscode-extension): Author Flink SQL
  with IntelliSense, submit statements, and manage UDFs from your editor.

## Deploy

- [Manage with Terraform](terraform.md#flink-sql-terraform): Create and manage
  compute pools, materialized tables, and statements as code.
- [Deploy with Terraform and CI/CD](../how-to-guides/deploy-flink-sql-statement.md#flink-deploy-sql-statement):
  Use the Confluent Terraform Provider with GitHub Actions for
  infrastructure-as-code deployments.
- [Deploy with dbt](deploy-flink-dbt.md#flink-deploy-dbt): Manage Flink SQL
  transformations as dbt models for teams using dbt workflows.
- [Deploy Table API Programs](table-api-deploy.md#flink-table-api-deploy): Authenticate,
  deploy, and manage Java Table API programs and integrate them with CI/CD
  pipelines.
- [CLI commands](../reference/flink-sql-cli.md#flink-sql-confluent-cli): Script deployments with
  the Confluent CLI.
- [REST API](flink-rest-api.md#flink-rest-api): Build custom integrations for
  programmatic statement management.
- [Terraform resources](../../clusters/terraform-provider.md#confluent-terraform-provider-resources-flink):
  Reference for all Flink Terraform resources.

## Operate

- [Monitor Statements](monitor-statements.md#flink-sql-monitor-statements-with-cloud-console)
- [Move SQL Statements to Production](best-practices.md#flink-sql-best-practices-for-statements)
- [RBAC](flink-rbac.md#flink-rbac)
- [Flink API Keys](generate-api-key-for-flink.md#flink-generate-api-key)
- [Manage Compute Pools](../concepts/compute-pools.md#flink-sql-compute-pools)
- [Billing](../concepts/flink-billing.md#flink-sql-billing)

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