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  • pz303@kbin.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldELI5 Cloudflare Tunnel
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    1 year ago

    @operator

    Cloudflared tunnels are great. No firewall ports to open.

    I installed the Cloudflared docker, which is headless, and fed it my API key. Then Cloudflared creates a VPN between your system and theirs. Then, think of Cloudflare as the reverse proxy, you just configure it on the CF site instead of locally. No need for a reverse proxy on your side.

    I’ve not done anything with auth on it as what I run I don’t mind being public. If you still want to run a local auth, you can set it to hit your local reverse proxy instead and do it that way.

    The benefits are you don’t need to open firewall ports and your local IP is irrelevant so no need for dynamic DNS.