Tutorial: How to install Tanzu & Kubernetes CLI on Linux

1. Install Tanzu CLI

Install Tanzu CLI via APT (Debian/Ubuntu)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl gpg
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://storage.googleapis.com/tanzu-cli-installer-packages/keys/TANZU-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.gpg | \
  sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/tanzu-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/tanzu-archive-keyring.gpg] https://storage.googleapis.com/tanzu-cli-installer-packages/apt tanzu-cli-jessie main" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tanzu.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tanzu-cli

Install Tanzu CLI via YUM/DNF (RHEL)

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/tanzu-cli.repo
[tanzu-cli]
name=Tanzu CLI
baseurl=https://storage.googleapis.com/tanzu-cli-installer-packages/rpm/tanzu-cli
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://storage.googleapis.com/tanzu-cli-installer-packages/keys/TANZU-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.gpg
EOF

sudo yum install -y tanzu-cli # dnf install can also be used

2. Initialize Tanzu CLI

tanzu init
tanzu plugin install --group vmware-tmc/default

3. Install Kubernetes CLI

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v1.28.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
chmod +x kubectl
sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

4. Verify installations

tanzu version
tanzu plugin list
kubectl version --client