Cloud Native Applications with Docker and Kubernetes: Design and Build Cloud Architecture and Applications with Microservices, EMQ, and Multi-Site Configurations

Appendix A: Navigating the Linux Command-Line Shell

In the Kubernetes world, you are rarely doing full system administration tasks. However, knowing the basics of how to navigate around Linux using a command shell (also called a terminal or the command line) will help you immensely both for building container images and troubleshooting running containers. While this certainly isn’t a full introduction to the command shell, it will hopefully give you a place to start.

A.1 General Command Format

Linux commands usually follow the same basic format, based largely after human communication. The command is listed first because that is the name of the program which runs the command. Most commands take one or more arguments which can be considered similar ...