# Get Started with Confluent Platform for Apache Flink Confluent Platform for Apache Flink® brings support for Apache Flink® to Confluent Platform. CMF (CMF) is a central management component of Confluent Platform for Apache Flink that enables users to securely manage a fleet of Flink jobs across multiple [Environments](../configure/environments.md#cmf-environments). CMF enables you to create and manage Flink jobs either as [applications](../jobs/applications/overview.md#cmf-applications) or [SQL statements](../jobs/sql-statements/overview.md#flink-sql-statements). To get started, choose one of the following topics: - [Get Started with Applications in Confluent Manager for Apache Flink](get-started-application.md#cpf-get-started) - [Submit Flink SQL Statement with Confluent Manager for Apache Flink](get-started-statement.md#get-started-flinksql)