☁️🛡️ 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-tunnelcloudflared tunnel route dns my-tunnel example.example.comcloudflared tunnel run my-tunnel