operatorELI5 Cloudflare Tunnel
So everyone is talking about cloudflare tunnels and I decided to give it a shot....
lchapmanHere’s how I do it: blog.lchapman.dev/self-hosting-foundations/
Basically, I use a cloud VM as a gateway and reverse proxy to my services which are accessible via VPN. It’s not free, but it’s pretty cheap.
I have a friend who is using Cloudflare for this. He has a domain and he can access his services at domain.tld:port. Not bad, and it’s free. He could have his tunnel pointed at Caddy like I do and use subdomains, but he hasn’t got that far yet.
I prefer my method but both seem to get the basic functionality working.
Self Hosting Foundations
I've always had a passion for free and open source software. Naturally this has evolved into a self-hosting obsession. Some softwares that would otherwise be gated behind large upfront costs or subscription fees have perfectly serviceable free alternatives, at the cost of having to administer them yourself. I have a
Thanks for the write up! I’ll definately check out your blog as well. A cloud gateway is something I’ve considered as well (especially when the costs are around $5 monthly). How do you handle authentication?
Currently I don’t have an auth service sitting in front of my other services, it’s just whatever auth is built into each app and saved passwords.
That said, I’ve deployed Authentik at a workplace and really enjoyed working with it, using it for SSO for a variety of services. I’ll implement it on my own platform soon.