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Cloudflared

What Is Cloudflared Tunnel?​

  • creates a secure outbound connection from your server to Cloudflare’s edge network
  • Instead of allowing traffic to reach your server directly, your server connects outward to Cloudflare
  • Cloudflare then routes HTTPS requests through this tunnel to your local service warp2

Step 1:Create a tunnel​

  • Cloudflare Dashboard > Zero Trust > Networks > Connectors > Tunnel > Create
  • Give your tunnel a descriptive name (e.g., tunnel-to-mac) and click Save
  • Choose your operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux, or Docker) and copy command block
  • run the command on your server
~% brew install cloudflare/cloudflare/cloudflared
~% cloudflared service install <YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN>
  • once running, the status of the tunnel changed to healthy

Step 2: Route traffic to application​

  • Cloudflare Dashboard > Zero Trust > Networks > Connectors > tunnel-to-mac > Published application routes > Add
  • subdomain: status
  • domain: example.com
  • service type: http
  • service url: localhost:3000