How do I configure default authentication type for Teleport Cloud?

Type:

How-To

Question/Problem:

How do I configure default authentication type for Teleport Cloud?

Solution:

Create a yaml config file with the following settings:

kind: cluster_auth_preference
metadata:
  name: cluster-auth-preference
spec:
  type: github|saml|oidc
version: v2

Note:  If your connector is SALM then use saml as the type, if it's OIDC then use oidc, and if it's Github use github as the type as discussed here.

2. Log into your cloud cluster with admin credentials.

3. Run tctl create -f <auth_file> --confirm

Next time you log in you can just run tsh login without having to specify auth type.