CLI Reference — Roadmap

A reference, so "done" just means "you know where to look." Check off what you can already run from muscle memory.

1. Linux & Shell

• Process inspection: ps, top/htop, kill, jobs/fg/bg
• File & permission ops: find, chmod/chown, du/df, ln
• Text processing: grep, sed, awk, jq
• Networking: curl, ss/netstat, dig, ssh tunnels

2. Git

• Interactive rebase (rebase -i) and conflict resolution
• bisect for finding a regression
• reflog for recovering "lost" commits
• worktree for parallel checkouts
• cherry-pick and stash workflows

3. Docker & Compose

• build/run/exec/logs fluently
• Compose for multi-container local dev
• Image/layer inspection and pruning

4. kubectl

• get/describe/logs/exec for debugging a running pod
• apply vs create vs edit
• port-forward, rollout, scale

5. Terraform

• init/plan/apply/destroy loop
• state subcommands for drift/surgery
• workspace for environment separation

6. Cloud CLIs

• Auth: aws configure, az login, gcloud auth login
• Compute lifecycle in all three
• Object storage cp/sync in all three
• Managed Kubernetes credentials (eks/aks/gke) in all three

7. Package Managers

• pip + venv basics
• Poetry or uv for a real project (lockfile, run)
• npm basics (this site's own build uses it)