A DevOps engineer needs to package an application's source code, located in multiple directories on a Linux server, into a single archive file for deployment. It is critical that all file permissions and the original directory structure are preserved. Which of the following utilities is BEST suited for this task?
The tar utility is the standard tool on Linux systems for creating archives that preserve file permissions, ownership, and the original directory structure, making it ideal for packaging application files for deployment. The zip utility is more common in Windows environments and, while some versions can store basic Unix permissions, it is not as reliable for this purpose as tar. docker build is a command used to create container images, which are complete runtime environments, not just file archives. rsync is a utility for synchronizing files and directories between locations, not for creating a single archive file from them.
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