# Thank you for being part of the Desktop journey. *Now let's keep going.*

For years, Desktop sat on your laptop and let you poke at Kafka without ceremony. **You shaped what Conduktor became.** The work continues in **Conduktor Console**, with the same Kafka know-how, now wired for whole teams.

1 STEP 01
Get Console running.
Install on your own infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm. It runs locally in a few minutes.
[Install Console →](https://www.conduktor.io/get-started)

2 STEP 02
Bring your clusters.
Connect any Kafka: Apache, Confluent Cloud, MSK, Aiven, Redpanda, or self-hosted brokers. Your topics and consumers show up in one place.
[Explore Console →](https://www.conduktor.io/console)

3 STEP 03
Invite your team.
The real upgrade is that everyone works in the same place. RBAC, SSO, and audit logs are built in, so platform teams can hand out access without losing sleep.
[Self-service Kafka →](https://www.conduktor.io/solutions/use-case/accelerate-innovation-with-self-service-kafka-controls)

READY WHEN YOU ARE
Move to *Conduktor Console*
Free Community edition or Team Edition. Self-hosted. Works with any Kafka: Apache, Confluent, MSK, Aiven, Redpanda.
[Get Started with Console →](https://www.conduktor.io/get-started)

A NOTE FROM THE TEAM
If you ever opened Desktop to peek at a topic, chase a stuck consumer, or just figure out what was going on in your cluster: *thank you*. A lot of what's in Console today started as something a Desktop user asked us for, complained about, or worked around with a hack. Come say hi on the other side.
Stephane · stephane at conduktor.io