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Browser OIDC login for tcloud CLI

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2026-07-07
By Thalassa Cloud

Until now, the default way to authenticate tcloud was a Personal Access Token (PAT): create one in the Console, paste it into tcloud context create, and hope it never ends up in shell history, a dotfile, or a shared screen recording. That works for automation, but it is a poor default for engineers who just want to manage clusters from a laptop. With tcloud v0.20.0, browser-based OIDC login is the default.

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