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Benefits of Cloudflare Access (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by garibaldi3489@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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For a self-hosted application with a valid SSL certificate and support for OAuth, what are the benefits that Cloudflare Access provides? From what I can tell, it also filters traffic to possibly block attacks? Can it even be used with a self-hosted app if you aren't also running Cloudflare Tunnel? Is there a better alternative (that also integrates with major OAuth providers like Google, Github, etc) for self-hosters? Thanks for the help in understanding how this works.

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[-] avdept@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

There’s not much reasons of exposing any of your local services to internet. Use vpn to have access to your local resources. This is best you can come up with for your home lab

[-] garibaldi3489@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

For most things I agree but I this case I'm thinking of a service where you want to have a group of people access and they all aren't willing or tech-saavy enough to install a VPN

[-] tradinghumble@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Question : what if I need to access my home computer from a work laptop and I’m not allowed to install things such as the WireGuard VPN client. Do I use native say Windows VPN?

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Never perform personal tasks on work equipment. If it's not something you'd expose to the open net, you definitely shouldn't be accessing it from equipment you don't own.

Get a personal laptop for remote tasks, or use your phone.

[-] adamshand@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Assuming it's a Linux server at home and you can use SSH on your work computer, there's a couple ways to do this.

  • Install a web based terminal client
  • Setup Cloudflare tunnels on your home server and use the the SSH proxy. I do this with a simple helper in ~/.ssh/config:
Match host "*.cf"
  ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/cloudflared access ssh --hostname $(echo %h | sed 's/\.cf$/.homelab.nz/')
  ForwardAgent yes
[-] discoshanktank@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Wait don’t you need the Cloudflare agent to be able to connect to a tunnel that’s set up?

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