# Converting certificate files to certificate data fields

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Hava does not support accessing external files within your kubeconfig for authentication using client certificates. Luckily, it's a simple process to convert these to data fields that can be entered directly into your configuration.

The fields that will need to be converted are:

* `certificate-authority` to become `certificate-authority-data`
* `client-certificate` to become `client-certificate-data`
* `client-key` to become `client-key-data`

### Finding and converting the files

For this example we have the following kubeconfig using local certificates files.

```
apiVersion: v1
kind: Config
preferences: {}
clusters:
  - cluster:
      certificate-authority: /Users/example/ca.crt
      server: https://kubeserver:8443
    name: kube
contexts:
  - context:
      cluster: kube
      user: kube
    name: kube
users:
  - name: kube
    user:
      client-certificate: /Users/example/client.crt
      client-key: /Users/example/client.key
```

For each of these external files we need to convert them to base64 and then update the configuration with the base64 string. 

Here's an example using the certificate authority file:

#### Linux and MacOS

`cat /Users/example/ca.crt | base64`

#### Windows

`certutil -f -encode "c:/Users/example/ca.crt" "output-file"`

### Update the config to use the new values

Once you've got the base64 data for all 3 values you can update the config file.

```
apiVersion: v1
kind: Config
preferences: {}
clusters:
  - cluster:
      certificate-authority-data: <base64 ca.crt>
      server: https://kubeserver:8443
    name: kube
contexts:
  - context:
      cluster: kube
      user: kube
    name: kube
users:
  - name: kube
    user:
      client-certificate-data: <base64 client.crt>
      client-key-data: <base64 client.key>
```

Your configuration is now ready to import into Hava to connect and display your Kubernetes clusters!


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