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title: "Accessing a Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Cluster from a new device" # Title of the blog post.
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date: 2022-02-01T10:58:57-06:00 # Date of post creation.
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description: "The Tanzu Community Edition documentation does a great job of explaining how to authenticate to a newly-deployed cluster at the tail end of the installation steps, but how do you log in from another system?" # Description used for search engine.
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series: Tips
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tags:
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- vmware
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- kubernetes
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- tanzu
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When I [recently set up my Tanzu Community Edition environment](/tanzu-community-edition-k8s-homelab/), I did so from a Linux VM since I knew that my Chromebook Linux environment wouldn't support the `kind` bootstrap cluster used for the deployment. But now I'd like to be able to connect to the cluster directly using the `tanzu` and `kubectl` CLI tools. How do I get the appropriate cluster configuration over to my Chromebook?
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The Tanzu CLI actually makes that pretty easy. I just run these commands on my Linux VM to export the `kubeconfig` of my management (`tce-mgmt`) and workload (`tce-work`) clusters to a pair of files:
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```shell
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tanzu management-cluster kubeconfig get --admin --export-file tce-mgmt-kubeconfig.yaml
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tanzu cluster kubeconfig get tce-work --admin --export-file tce-work-kubeconfig.yaml
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```
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I could then use `scp` to pull the files from the VM into my local Linux environment. I then needed to [install `kubectl`](/tanzu-community-edition-k8s-homelab/#kubectl-binary) and the [`tanzu` CLI](/tanzu-community-edition-k8s-homelab/#tanzu-cli) (making sure to also [enable shell auto-completion](/enable-tanzu-cli-auto-completion-bash-zsh/) along the way!), and I could import the configurations locally:
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```shell
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❯ tanzu login --kubeconfig tce-mgmt-kubeconfig.yaml --context tce-mgmt-admin@tce-mgmt --name tce-mgmt
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✔ successfully logged in to management cluster using the kubeconfig tce-mgmt
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❯ tanzu login --kubeconfig tce-work-kubeconfig.yaml --context tce-work-admin@tce-work --name tce-work
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✔ successfully logged in to management cluster using the kubeconfig tce-work
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```
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