Cloudflared

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Cloudflare Tunnel client to expose local services via Cloudflare's edge network.

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Cloudflared is the Cloudflare Tunnel client used to create and manage tunnels that expose local or private services to the Internet through Cloudflare's edge network.

It authenticates to your Cloudflare account and routes traffic from the Cloudflare network to your origin with TLS, providing an added layer of security and control.

Key Features

Easy-to-install agent with low performance overhead
Command-line configuration
Built-in DDoS protection
Load balancing across origin pools with Cloudflare Load Balancer
Encrypted tunnels with TLS (origin-side certificates)
Application and protocol-level error logging

Use Cases

Provide secure remote access to internal applications via Cloudflare Access (Zero Trust)
Quickly expose local development environments for previews using Quick Tunnels
Improve remote performance and reliability with Argo Smart Routing across the Cloudflare network

Categories:

Edge & Traffic (Reverse Proxy, Load Balancing, Web Servers)Network Security (VPN, Firewall, WAF)

Tags:

# Edge Proxy # Edge # Proxy # HTTP Proxy # Reverse Proxy

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