Tutorial: How to install Tanzu & Kubernetes CLI on Windows

Note! Run all these on non ISE Powershell with administrator rights

1. Check Execution Policy

Get-ExecutionPolicy

If it returns Restricted, run:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process

2. Install Choco

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

3. Install Tanzu CLI

choco install tanzu-cli

4. Initialize Tanzu CLI

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

5. Install Kubernetes CLI (kubectl)

You can download the matching version from the Broadcom Tanzu CLI page or use Chocolatey:

choco install kubernetes-cli

6. Verify installations

tanzu version
tanzu plugin list
kubectl version --client