Cloudflare Tunnels: Getting Started with Domains, DNS, and Tunnels

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Cloudflare has done some updates since this video was published. The path to get to the Tunnels area shown in the video is now as follows:
- Log into your account.
- Look for "Zero Trust" in the left column.
- Click "Zero Trust".
- That will take you to a different page.
- Look for "Access" in the left column.
- Click "Access".
- Then you will see "Tunnels".

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Getting started with Cloudflare can be a bit overwhelming when you're first getting started with self-hosting.

This video will hopefully help you understand the process of:
- Buying a domain
- Setting up a Cloudflare account
- Configuring nameservers to point your domain to Cloudflare
- Setting up Cloudflare Tunnels
- Restricting remote access via Cloudflare tunnels

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Sponsor Spot
01:21 Purchasing a domain name
03:37 Set up Cloudflare account and change nameservers
10:54 Creating our first tunnel
15:50 Setting up hostnames
17:39 Multiple applications on a single tunnel
19:08 Restricting access

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[DBTechYT]

Here is a docker-compose with a restart policy to help making deploying a CloudFlare tunnel a little more straightforward:

Thanks to The Blue Portal for sharing this with the community.

[brandonchappell]

omg, this is the first guide ive seen that doesnt involve creating dockers or other crap, its just simply, explained step by step, like a normal human being !! There is such a need for this, in this area, as not everyone is in front of a PC 12hrs a day!! Couldnt hit Sub quick enough

[sinasina]

Finally someone made a video with proper pace and no additional comment. Thanks very much! Very precise and on point.

[JamieLloyd]

You sir, saved my sanity!!! No more NPM for this dude, Cloudflare tunnel all the way! Thanks for all the effort put into making this video and helping us out.

[dvrtimemachine]

I've watched countless videos on using cloudflare specifically, this was the most straight to the point and easy to understand video. I can't say thank you enough!!

[RDMB]

This was a thing that took me 5 days to figure out. A lot to learn. Of all my youtubers on this subject... you are the most reliable. Thank you.

[GoibniuNihiliste]

I don't know how, but I got this working on a CGNAT.
You are the greatest man to ever live.

[oversight]

Thanks for the great video and for taking time to help me out with my SSH Question!

[aasd]

This is gold man. I've been leaning towards this solution and slowly learned the bits and pieces as time goes on. Thanks so much for laying all this out. Incredibly valuable!

[sreenathramanna]

One more top quality session from Dave! As a side note, most of the technical videos, I usually watch it 1.2x speed. Can't do it at Dave's speed of speech! 😆

[zeemssy]

This is golden. Have been searching for this solution for weeks now. Thanks for this video ☺️

[mukeshpuppala]

I am a noob when it comes to networking.. I was able to understand and follow each and every step ❤️. Now I am accessing my jellyfin server over the domain ❤ Thank you so much .. just subscribed

[The_Blue_Portal]

You can also turn the docker file into a stack in portainer like this:

version: "3.9"
services:
tunnel:
container_name: cloudflared-tunnel
image: cloudflare/cloudflared
restart: unless-stopped
command: tunnel run
environment:
- TUNNEL_TOKEN=YOURTOKENHERE


You can also add this on to other stacks if you wanted to make a tunnel for each application

[jeffherdz]

OMG !! You have saved me 100 hours of time and just maybe a few brain cells. Thank you !

[darrenoshaughnessy]

Followed another VERY well known tech blogger/tuber and got myself into deep poop (beware of stuff from the legacy Argo Tunnels days). This tutorial - and the others regarding remote/restricted access - saved the day. Clear, concise(ish), occasionally tangental (like my brain), and, if I'm sufficiently caffeinated, I can watch them at full speed! ;-) Thanks, David.

[nimshuda]

Thank you for your excellent video on Cloudflare Tunnel installation! Your clear instructions saved me hours of frustration, and I quickly achieved success. Your expertise is greatly appreciated!

[DavidPeele]

This was great!! Thanks. I never knew about Cloudflare tunnels and have only used DNS forwarding with open ports. Now I can close all those open ports on my router. And can have secure passwords for all my docker web interfaces maintained by keychain. Awesome.

[ScofieldMuliru]

Thank you so much for making this video. This is very informative and more so with the current environment where some ISPs restrict port opening from their end.

[alikan]

All great recommendations as usual DB! Porkbun is by far the best for price and privacy (and ease of use). Cloudflare is incredible! I’d say they are sooo instrumental to daily operation, that I wonder what would happen if there was a significant outage. This all makes me think if I should think of some sort of ‘Plan B’ - if things go down, or receive maintenance. But if CloudFlare goes down — that everything might be as well... which is definitely a scary thought!

[SalvatoreBorgia-eg]

As a newbie I say: AWESOME! finally after hours of research... thanks man