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= {product-title} CLI tools overview
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A user performs a range of operations while working on {product-title} such as the following:
* Managing clusters
* Building, deploying, and managing applications
* Managing deployment processes
* Creating and maintaining Operator catalogs
{product-title} offers a set of command-line interface (CLI) tools that simplify these tasks by enabling users to perform various administration and development operations from the terminal.
These tools expose simple commands to manage the applications, as well as interact with each component of the system.
[id="cli-tools-list"]
== List of CLI tools
The following set of CLI tools are available in {product-title}:
* xref:../cli_reference/openshift_cli/getting-started-cli.adoc#cli-getting-started[OpenShift CLI (`oc`)]:
ifndef::openshift-rosa[]
This is the most commonly used CLI tool by {product-title} users.
endif::openshift-rosa[]
ifdef::openshift-rosa[]
This is one of the more commonly used developer CLI tools.
endif::openshift-rosa[]
It helps both cluster administrators and developers to perform end-to-end operations across {product-title} using the terminal. Unlike the web console, it allows the user to work directly with the project source code using command scripts.
* xref:../cli_reference/kn-cli-tools.adoc#kn-cli-tools[Knative CLI (kn)]: The Knative (`kn`) CLI tool provides simple and intuitive terminal commands that can be used to interact with OpenShift Serverless components, such as Knative Serving and Eventing.
* xref:../cli_reference/tkn_cli/installing-tkn.adoc#installing-tkn[Pipelines CLI (tkn)]: OpenShift Pipelines is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution in {product-title}, which internally uses Tekton. The `tkn` CLI tool provides simple and intuitive commands to interact with OpenShift Pipelines using the terminal.
* xref:../cli_reference/opm/cli-opm-install.adoc#cli-opm-install[opm CLI]: The `opm` CLI tool helps the Operator developers and cluster administrators to create and maintain the catalogs of Operators from the terminal.
ifdef::openshift-rosa,openshift-rosa-hcp[]
* xref:../cli_reference/rosa_cli/rosa-get-started-cli.adoc#rosa-get-started-cli[ROSA CLI (`rosa`)]: Use the `rosa` CLI to create, update, manage, and delete {product-title} clusters and resources.
endif::openshift-rosa,openshift-rosa-hcp[]