Access Tanzu Developer Portal

This topic tells you how to access Tanzu Developer Portal by using one of the following methods:

Access with the LoadBalancer method (default)
Access with the shared Ingress method

Access with the LoadBalancer method (default)

Verify that you specified the service_type for Tanzu Developer Portal in tap-values.yaml, as in this example:
```
tap_gui:
  service_type: LoadBalancer
```
Obtain the external IP address of your LoadBalancer by running:
```
kubectl get svc -n tap-gui
```
Access Tanzu Developer Portal by using the external IP address with the default port of 7000. It has the following form:
```
http://EXTERNAL-IP:7000
```
Where EXTERNAL-IP is the external IP address of your LoadBalancer.

Access with the shared Ingress method

The Ingress method of access for Tanzu Developer Portal uses the shared tanzu-system-ingress instance of Contour that is installed as part of the Profile installation.

The Ingress method of access requires that you have a DNS host name that you can point at the External IP address of the envoy service that the shared tanzu-system-ingress uses. Retrieve this IP address by running:
```
kubectl get service envoy -n tanzu-system-ingress
```
This returns a value similar to this example:
```
$ kubectl get service envoy -n tanzu-system-ingress
NAME    TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)                      AGE
envoy   LoadBalancer   10.0.242.171   40.118.168.232   80:31389/TCP,443:31780/TCP   27h
```
The IP address in the EXTERNAL-IP field is the one that you point a DNS host record to. Tanzu Developer Portal prepends tap-gui to your provided subdomain. This makes the final host name tap-gui.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN. You use this host name in the appropriate fields in the tap-values.yaml file mentioned later.
Specify parameters in tap-values.yaml related to Ingress. For example:
```
shared:
  ingress_domain: "example.com"
```

Update your other host names in the tap_gui section of your tap-values.yaml with the new host name. For example:

shared:
  ingress_domain: "example.com"

tap_gui:
# Existing tap-values.yaml above
  app_config:
    app:
      baseUrl: http://tap-gui.example.com # No port needed with Ingress
    integrations:
      github: # Other are integrations available
        - host: github.com
          token: GITHUB-TOKEN
    catalog:
      locations:
        - type: url
          target: https://GIT-CATALOG-URL/catalog-info.yaml
    backend:
      baseUrl: http://tap-gui.example.com # No port needed with Ingress
      cors:
        origin: http://tap-gui.example.com # No port needed with Ingress

Update your package installation with your changed tap-values.yaml file by running:
```
tanzu package installed update tap --package tap.tanzu.vmware.com --version VERSION-NUMBER \
--values-file tap-values.yaml -n tap-install
```
Where VERSION-NUMBER is your Tanzu Application Platform version. For example, 1.8.7.
Use a web browser to access Tanzu Developer Portal at the host name that you provided.