> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.streamnative.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# StreamNative CLI Overview

StreamNative provides powerful command-line interfaces (CLIs) for managing your messaging infrastructure.

The primary tool is the [StreamNative Cloud CLI (`snctl`)](/tools/cli/snctl/snctl-overview). It serves as a unified interface to:

* Deploy and manage StreamNative Cloud infrastructure (instances, clusters, service accounts, API keys, etc.).
* Interact directly with your Pulsar clusters using the `snctl pulsar` commands (for managing tenants, namespaces, topics, producing/consuming messages, running admin tasks, etc.).
* Interact with Kafka-protocol endpoints (KSN / Ursa) using the `snctl kafka` commands (for managing topics, consumer groups, producing/consuming messages, etc.).

Additionally, the traditional [Pulsar CLI (`pulsarctl`)](/tools/cli/pulsarctl/pulsarctl-overview) remains available. While `snctl` now covers most common Pulsar management tasks for StreamNative Cloud clusters via its Service Context feature, `pulsarctl` is still relevant for:

* Managing self-managed, open-source Apache Pulsar clusters.
* Users who prefer its specific command set or have existing scripts based on it.
* Potentially accessing advanced Pulsar features or configurations not yet exposed through `snctl pulsar admin`.

By primarily leveraging `snctl`, you can automate the complete workflow of provisioning StreamNative Cloud resources and managing the Pulsar/Kafka resources within them. You can supplement with `pulsarctl` for specific OSS or advanced use cases if needed.

## Resources you can manage

### by `snctl`

You can provision or manage the following StreamNative Cloud resources by using `snctl`:

**Generic resources**

* Organization

**Infrastructure resources**

* CloudConnection
* CloudEnvironment
* PulsarGateway
* Pool
* PoolMember

**Instance & Cluster resources**

* PulsarInstance
* PulsarCluster

**Security, access control, and observability resources**

* ServiceAccount
* Role
* RoleBinding
* User
* APIKey

**Pulsar resources on PulsarCluster**

* Cluster
* Broker
* Tenant
* Namespace
* Topic
* Subscription
* Schema
* Source
* Sink
* Function
* Packages

**Kafka resources on KSN enabled PulsarCluster or Ursa engine PulsarCluster**

* Topics
* Partitions
* Groups
* Schema Registry
* Kafka Connect

### by `pulsarctl`

You can provision or manage the following Pulsar resources by using `pulsarctl`:

* Cluster
* Broker
* Tenant
* Namespace
* Topic
* Subscription
* Schema
* Source
* Sink
* Function
* Packages

## Other tools

You can use the other existing tools to interact with your StreamNative clusters.

### Pulsar CLI tools

You can use the existing [OSS Pulsar CLI tools](https://pulsar.apache.org/reference/#/next/cli), such as `pulsar-admin`, `pulsar-client`, and `pulsar-perf`, to manage the Pulsar resources or interact with your StreamNative clusters through the Pulsar protocol.

See [Use Pulsar Tools With StreamNative Cloud](/tools/cli/other-tools/use-pulsar-tools-with-streamnative-cloud) for more information.

### Kafka CLI tools

**Apache Kafka CLI tools**

Apache Kafka provides a suite of command-line interface (CLI) tools that can be accessed from the `/bin` directory after [downloading](https://kafka.apache.org/downloads) and extracting the Kafka distribution. These tools offer a range of capabilities, including starting and stopping Kafka, managing topics, and handling partitions. You can use these tools to interact with your StreamNative clusters through the Kafka protocol.

See [Use Kafka Tools With StreamNative Cloud](/tools/cli/other-tools/use-kafka-tools-with-streamnative-cloud) for more information.

**`kcat`**

[`kcat`](https://github.com/edenhill/kcat) is a popular CLI tool to interact with Apache Kafka. You can use it to interact with your StreamNative clusters as well.

See [Use kcat to interact with StreamNative Cloud](/tools/cli/other-tools/use-kcat-with-streamnative-cloud) for more information.