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☁️🛡️ Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared)

🤖 AI Summary

👉 What Is It?

• ☁️🛡️ Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared) is a tool that creates a secure connection between your local server and Cloudflare’s network.
• 📱 It lets you expose local development servers to the internet without configuring firewalls or routers.
• 🔐 Traffic is encrypted and routed through Cloudflare, adding security and DDoS protection.

🚀 Common Use Cases

• 📱 Expose local development servers to your phone for testing
• 🌐 Share local sites with others without deploying
• 🔒 Add Cloudflare’s security layer to self-hosted services
• 🏠 Access home network services remotely

💻 Installation

# Download cloudflared  
wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64  
  
# Make executable  
chmod +x cloudflared-linux-amd64  
  
# Run tunnel  
./cloudflared tunnel --url http://127.0.0.1:4096  

🔧 Basic Usage

# Simple tunnel to local server  
cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:3000  
  
# Create a named tunnel  
cloudflared tunnel create my-tunnel  
cloudflared tunnel route dns my-tunnel example.example.com  
cloudflared tunnel run my-tunnel  

📍 Links

• Cloudflare Zero Trust Documentation
• GitHub Repository

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☁️🛡️ Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared)

AI Q: 🌐 How do you securely access your home network from anywhere?

🌐 Networking | 🔐 Security | 💻 Development | 🚀 DevOps
https://bagrounds.org/software/cloudflare-tunnel

— Bryan Grounds (@bagrounds.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T05:26:50.000Z

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