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// * microshift-cli_ref/microshift-cli-using-oc.adoc

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= About the OpenShift CLI

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With the OpenShift command-line interface (CLI), the `oc` command, you can deploy and manage {microshift-short} projects from a terminal. The CLI `oc` tool is ideal in the following situations:

* Working directly with project source code
* Scripting {product-title} operations
* Managing projects while restricted by bandwidth resources

[NOTE]
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A `kubeconfig` file must exist for the node to be accessible. The values are applied from built-in default values or a `config.yaml`, if you created one.
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