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// * cli_reference/openshift_cli/getting-started.adoc

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= About the OpenShift CLI

With the {oc-first}, you can create applications and manage {product-title} projects from a terminal. The OpenShift CLI is ideal in the following situations:

* Working directly with project source code.
* Scripting {product-title} operations
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* Managing projects while restricted by bandwidth resources and the web console is unavailable.
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* Managing projects while restricted by bandwidth resources.
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