# Manage TLS Certificates in a Cluster — Download the certificate and use it

> Now, as the requesting user, you can download the issued certificate and save it to a server.crt file by running the following Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get csr my-svc.my-namespace -o jsonpath='{.status.certificate}' \ | base64 --decode > se

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Now, as the requesting user, you can download the issued certificate and save it to a server.crt file by running the following

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get csr my-svc.my-namespace -o jsonpath='{.status.certificate}' \
    | base64 --decode &gt; server.crt
```

Now you can populate server.crt and server-key.pem in a that you could later mount into a Pod (for example, to use with a webserver that serves HTTPS).

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl create secret tls server --cert server.crt --key server-key.pem
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
secret/server created
```

Finally, you can store ca.pem in a and use it as the trust root to verify the serving certificate

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl create configmap example-serving-ca --from-file ca.crt=ca.pem
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
configmap/example-serving-ca created
```

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