If you’re a Linux admin (or are just now hopping onto the Linux platform bandwagon), you have probably figured out that you’re going to need to interact with a terminal window. Even though the Linux desktop environments are all as user-friendly and robust as any on the market, when you’re dealing with a server, chances are really good you won’t have a desktop environment to work with. You’ll also spend a good amount of time remoting into a Linux server, where the command-line interface is the only option.

Jack Wallen, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents a list of 10 must-know commands to bring you up to speed. Once you can use each of these tools without having to look them up, you’re well on your way to mastering Linux networking.

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netplan is the tool you use on a number of Ubuntu-based distributions for configuring and bringing up network interfaces. With netplan you configure your interfaces in the /etc/netplan directory (as YAML files) and then bring them up with the command:

sudo netplan apply.

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