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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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[-] 2treesandatiger@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t you need to configure DDNS regardless? And port forwarding as well unless you went with tunnels?

[-] chin_waghing@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

For cloudflare tunnels no, it does a nat punch through I think it's called, where it connects from inside your network out to 2 edge locations to cloudlfare, where it then can send traffic back and forwards.

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If I wanted to expose by port forwarding, then yes you are correct, I could configure ddns.

Personally, I would configure my own version of DDNS where it's just a cron job once every 5 minutes to run terraform and check if my public IP has changed, and if it has run an apply.

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Does that answer the question?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's a great tiny little program/docker container called cf-ddns that is great for this

[-] discoshanktank@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Whoa that’s a clever solution for ddns

[-] 2treesandatiger@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Ye, I though tunnels needed a public ip still but it makes sense it doesn’t given there’s a service running in your network that can do that check

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