# Flink Jobs for Confluent Manager for Apache Flink Flink applications are deployed in Confluent Platform with Confluent Manager for Apache Flink® (CMF), which is a central management component that enables users to securely manage a fleet of Flink jobs across multiple environments. CMF supports two ways to create and manage Flink jobs. - [Applications](applications/overview.md#cmf-applications) offer the full flexibility of Flink programs. You can use all JVM-based APIs (DataStream, Table, SQL) and submit and manage applications packaged as JAR files. - [Statements](sql-statements/overview.md#flink-sql-statements) offer the ease-of-use of a native SQL interface. You can run [table operations](sql-statements/table-operations.md#flink-sql-table-operations), interactive SQL statements, or submit and manage long-running SQL statements. Applications and Statements offer all Flink configuration options and can be tuned to meet their performance, fault-tolerance, and security requirements.