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   * [Background Processing](documentation/writing-policies-background.md)
 * [Testing Policies](documentation/testing-policies.md)
 * [Policy Violations](documentation/policy-violations.md)
+* [Kyverno CLI](documentation/cli-usage.md)
 * [Sample Policies](/samples/README.md)
 
 ## License
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+<small>*[documentation](/README.md#documentation) / kyverno-cli*</small>
+
+
+# [kyverno CLI](https://github.com/nirmata/kyverno/releases) - kubectl plugin to deal with kyverno policies
+The Kyverno Command Line Interface (CLI) is designed to validate policies and test the behavior of applying policies to resources before adding the policy to a cluster. It can be used as a kubectl plugin and as a standalone CLI.
+
+##Installation
+You can get the installation package of the cli for your os in the releases page [here](https://github.com/nirmata/kyverno/releases).
+
+## Commands
+
+#### Version
+Prints the version of kyverno used by the CLI.
+
+Example: 
+```
+kubectl kyverno version
+```
+
+
+#### Validate
+Validates a policy, can validate multiple policy resource description files or even an entire folder containing policy resource description 
+files. Currently supports files with resource description in yaml.
+
+Example:
+```
+kubectl kyverno validate /path/to/policy1.yaml /path/to/policy2.yaml /path/to/folderFullOfPolicies
+```
+
+#### Apply
+Applies policies on resources, and supports applying multiple policies on multiple resources in a single command.
+Also supports applying the given policies to an entire cluster. The current kubectl context will be used to access the cluster.
+ Will return results to stdout.
+
+Apply to a resource:
+```
+kubectl kyverno apply /path/to/policy.yaml --resource /path/to/resource.yaml
+```
+Apply to all matching resources in a cluster:
+```
+kubectl kyverno apply /path/to/policy.yaml --cluster > policy-results.txt
+```
+Valid command with further complexity:
+```
+kubectl kyverno apply /path/to/policy1.yaml /path/to/folderFullOfPolicies --resource /path/to/resource1.yaml --resource /path/to/resource2.yaml --cluster
+```