Download Tanzu Data Flow Shell

Products

• VMware Tanzu Spring Runtime

Issue/Introduction

VMware Tanzu Data Flow provides a shell that you can use to interact with a Tanzu Data Flow service instance deployed on VMware Elastic Application Runtime

This document outlines how to download the Tanzu Data Flow Shell deployed in a Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry environment.

 

Environment

• VMware Tanzu Data Flow
• VMware Elastic Application Runtime

Resolution

The Tanzu Data Flow shell can be downloaded from a Tanzu Data Flow service instance, either from its dashboard or from the command line.

 

Option 1: Using the Tanzu Data Flow service instance dashboard.

1. Navigate to the dashboard with a browser. For information about the dashboard, see Using the dashboard.

2. Open the "about" floater by clicking the info icon on the top right.
   

3. Click Download Data Flow Shell.

 

 

 

Option 2: Using the command line

1. Obtain the Tanzu Data Flow instance’s SERVER_URL from the **dashboard** information by running cf service SERVICE_NAME. Copy the dashboard route-domain name (the URL minus the path following the domain).
2. Download shell using the curl command.

##Command
 curl -JO --header "Authorization: $(cf oauth-token)" SERVER_URL/shell


##Sample

dashboard:        https://dataflow-GUID.apps.example.com/dashboard

SERVER_URL = dataflow-GUID.apps.example.com

curl -JO --header "Authorization: $(cf oauth-token)" https://dataflow-GUID.apps.example.com/shell

 

Additional Information

Reference:
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/data-solutions/tanzu-data-flow/2-0/tdf-tanzu/using-the-shell.html