# New blog: Running a self-managed Kafka Connect worker for Confluent Cloud

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-running-a-self-managed-kafka-connect-worker-for-confluent-cloud/414>\
**Category:** Kafka Connect\
**Created:** [11 January 2021 23:25 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-running-a-self-managed-kafka-connect-worker-for-confluent-cloud/414 "2021-01-11T23:25:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/rmoff/32/3_2.png) [@rmoff](https://forum.confluent.io/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [11 January 2021 23:25 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-running-a-self-managed-kafka-connect-worker-for-confluent-cloud/414/1 "2021-01-11T23:25:38Z")

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Confluent Cloud is not only a fully -managed Apache Kafka service, but also provides important additional pieces for building applications and pipelines including managed connectors , Schema Registry , and ksqlDB . Managed Connectors are run for you (hence, managed!) within Confluent Cloud - you just specify the technology to which you want to integrate in or out of Kafka and Confluent Cloud does the rest.

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**Read more:** [Running a self-managed Kafka Connect worker for Confluent Cloud](https://rmoff.net/2021/01/11/running-a-self-managed-kafka-connect-worker-for-confluent-cloud/)

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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/rmoff/32/3_2.png) [@rmoff](https://forum.confluent.io/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2021 13:29 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-running-a-self-managed-kafka-connect-worker-for-confluent-cloud/414/2 "2021-02-09T13:29:17Z")

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