Magento 2 Cookbook

Managing Magento 2 cache via the command line

Cache management is one of the new optimized key features in Magento 2. We will be using the following cache types:

Cache types	Cache type code name	Description
Configuration	config	Magento collects configuration from all modules, merges it, and saves the merged result to the cache. This cache also contains store-specific settings stored in the filesystem and database. Clean or flush this cache type after modifying configuration files.
Layout	layout	This is the compiled page layout (that is, the layout components from all components). Clean or flush this cache type after modifying layout files.
Block HTML output	block_html	This is the HTML page fragments per block. Clean or flush this cache ...