# Migrate From an Existing Confluent Platform Deployment to Confluent for Kubernetes To migrate from a non-Kubernetes Confluent deployment to a Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) deployment, you would need to perform the following steps: 1. Deploy a new CFK-managed cluster by following the [Deployment workflow](co-plan-checklist.md#co-deployment-workflow). 2. Move topic data over to the CFK cluster using Cluster Linking. * [What is Cluster Linking?](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/multi-dc-deployments/cluster-linking/index.html#what-is-cluster-linking) * [Data Migration with Cluster Linking](https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/multi-cloud/cluster-linking/migrate-cc.html) * [Run Cluster Linking in CFK using the declarative API](co-link-clusters.md#co-link-clusters). 3. Migrate clients to produce/consume from the new CFK managed cluster. 4. Decommission the old cluster. Once all operations are confirmed to be working properly, you can then decommission the old cluster.