macos – How one can initialize and format exterior SSD in commandline?

How can an exterior disk be initialized, partitioned and formatted in macos Sonoma commandline?

I attempted trying out my exterior drive with the command diskutil listing:

...
/dev/disk2 (exterior, bodily):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   *2.0 TB     disk2

I can see that there is no such thing as a partition or file system, I verified this with diskutil information disk2:

...
Quantity Identify:               Not relevant (no file system)
Mounted:                   Not relevant (no file system)
File System:               None
...

I simply want one large partition formatted as APFS, I suppose APFS needs to be the detault today. I do know I might have carried out it with Disk Utility, however I’m wanting to do that on the commandline.