1. Log in to the VCF Operations interface at https://<vcf_operations_fqdn> as a user assigned the Administrator role.
2. Navigate to BuildLifecycleVCF Management.
3. On the Components tab, select the VCF services runtime.
   1. Scroll to the Nodes section.
   2. Identify a control plane node and note the IP address.
4. Using the IP address, open an SSH connection to the control plane node as the vmware-system-user using the APPLIANCE_ROOT_PASSWORD.
   1. To obtain administrative access to the control plane, enter the following commands.sudo -i export KUBECONFIG=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
   2. To confirm that you have logged in to a control plane node, enter the following command.kubectl get nodes -o wideThe response gets nodes with IP addresses listed.

sudo -i 
export KUBECONFIG=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
kubectl get nodes -o wide