operatorELI5 Cloudflare Tunnel
So everyone is talking about cloudflare tunnels and I decided to give it a shot....
JonDotGI would also like to know this. Everyone talks about it but I have no idea how it’s different than anything I’m doing now. Is it like Tailscale?
One of the mysteries I am facing ^^ selfhost headscale? Tailscale? VPN? CF?
Too many options :D
Personally, I just wireguard in to my local net. No need to have CF snooping where they don’t need to.
It all depends on your use cases and what you (or your users) need to access.
One of my considerations is the privacy side… VPN or self hosted solution seems to be the waay better choice in that case.
Meow.tar.gzTailscale and ZeroTier offer the least barriers to entry. They can both be setup quickly and easily when compared to traditional VPN.
Regular wireguard is fine as long as you’re not on CG-NAT, and doesn’t have any reliance on third party services.
Try to selfhost tailscale
You can set it up in 10 minutes.
In iOS, you can make automations to connect after launching certain apps.
In Android, you can do split tunneling.
Selfhost headscale, run a reverse proxy with let’s encrypt on a VPS and Tailscale that VPS to your local server, utilizing Tailscale’s ACLs to block all ports except for your desired ones. It’s exactly what CF tunnels is doing but you have far more control over your data and security.