cloudflared
Command-line tunneling daemon that connects a web server or other origin to the Cloudflare network without opening inbound firewall ports.
developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-tunnel/repositorydocs
cloudflared is the command-line client for Cloudflare Tunnel, a tunneling daemon that proxies traffic from the Cloudflare network to your origins. The daemon sits between the Cloudflare network and an origin such as a web server, so the origin can stay closed to inbound connections. The Cloudflare Tunnel documentation covers setup and routing. It is distributed as standalone binaries, a Docker image, and Debian, RPM and Homebrew packages.
Worth knowing
The tunnel is a service that Cloudflare hosts. The README asks users to add a website to a Cloudflare account before they use it, and says the requirement is kept for legacy reasons.
Sources
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