Telepresence Commands Pop Up an Ambassador Cloud Login Window

Question

For some reason, when I run some Telepresence commands, I get a browser window popping up prompting me to log in to Ambassador Cloud. But I'm not using Ambassador Cloud.

In addition to the browser window, the command shows a message to this effect. Like this:

~ % telepresence intercept my-k8s-service
Launching browser authentication flow...

How do I disable this?

Answer 1

I just figured this out -- there are some advanced options you can set by creating a config.yml file for telepresence. Its expected location varies by OS, see the chart here for all supported locations per OS: https://www.getambassador.io/docs/telepresence/latest/reference/config/

The setting we want, which I just tried and worked to disable opening the browser window, is:

cloud:
  skipLogin: true

I am on a Mac, and these are the steps I took to fix the issue:

1. Create the file ~/Library/Application\ Support/telepresence/config.yml and put the above two lines in it. Note that the line break and spaces matter in yaml files like this.
2. telepresence quit -ur (which still popped open the browser window one last time)
3. telepresence connect -- no longer pops open the browser window, as it now picks up the config setting to skipLogin to their cloud.

Answer 2

If anyone ever suffers from this problem in the future and the config solution does not work for them, this solution worked for us: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/issues/2667#issuecomment-1176330566