So everyone is talking about cloudflare tunnels and I decided to give it a shot.

However, I find the learning curve quite hard and would really appreciate a short introduction into how they work and how do I set them up…

In my current infrastructure I am running a reverse proxy with SSL and Authentik, but nothing is exposed outside. I access my network via a VPN but would like to try out and consider CF. Might be easier for the family.

How does authentication work? Is it really a secure way to expose internal services?

Thanks!

  • CodaBool@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I used one to reach my qbittorrent selfhost. I found a cool docker image. It bundles a openVPN connection with qbittorrent so that I don’t need my home server to be on a VPN at all times. As well as ensures traffic always goes through VPN. I was running into an issue where I could not reach from my home network. But when I used a cloudflare tunnel it somehow worked. This was all until I realized there was an environment variable of LAN I needed to set which allowed connections from my home network 😮‍💨

    I would definitely recommend this setup for any torrenting. I’ve been using it for years and have verified that it always using the openVPN for traffic.

    EDIT: just realized the guy deleted the docker image for that based on a false positive. I reuploaded their same image to my docker account. Still works fine so, not sure why they took such a drastic measure.

    • operator@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      What I’m doing is using a dedicated VPN Gateway container. The instances running delicate services have a static default route to the GW-container.

      This is an extra step, but allows me add easily route other services or clients or even whole networks through my VPN without additional setup or specialized containers bundling both.

      Wanna use it on the phone? Change the gateway address. Wanna use it from my Linux machine? Add a static default route. Etc…