Tropical geometry studies a piecewise linear, combinatorial shadow of degenerations of algebraic varieties. In many cases, usual algebro-geometric objects such as divisors or line bundles on curves have tropical analogues that are closely tied to their classical counterparts. For instance, the theory of divisors and line bundles on metric graphs has been crucial in advances in Brill–Noether theory and the birational geometry of moduli spaces. In this talk, I will present an elementary theory of tropical principal bundles on metric graphs, generalizing the case of tropical line bundles to bundles with arbitrary reductive structure group. Our approach is based on tropical matrix groups arising from the root datum of the corresponding reductive group, and leads to an appealing geometric picture: tropical principal bundles can be presented as pushforwards of line bundles along covers equipped with symmetry data from the Weyl group. Building on Fratila's description of the moduli space of semistable principal bundles on an elliptic curve, we describe a tropicalization procedure for semistable principal bundles on a Tate curve. More precisely, the moduli space of semistable principal bundles on a Tate curve is isomorphic to a natural component of the tropical moduli space of principal bundles on its dual metric graph. This is based on ongoing work with Andreas Gross, Martin Ulirsch, and Dmitry Zakharov.