diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/getting-started.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/getting-started.adoc
index 13de4a25c..ff37a359a 100644
--- a/modules/ROOT/pages/getting-started.adoc
+++ b/modules/ROOT/pages/getting-started.adoc
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ We can test ZooKeeper by running the ZooKeeper CLI shell. The easiest way to do
 
 [source,bash]
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-kubectl exec -i -t simple-zk-server-primary-0 -- bin/zkCli.sh
+PORT="$(kubectl get pod simple-zk-server-primary-0 -o=json | jq '.spec.containers[].ports[] | select(.name == "zk") | .containerPort')"
+kubectl exec -i -t simple-zk-server-primary-0 -- bin/zkCli.sh -server "localhost:$PORT"
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 The shell should connect automatically to the ZooKeeper server running on the pod. You can run the `ls /` command to see the list of znodes in the root path, which should include those created by Apache Kafka and Apache NiFi.