Cloudflare Tunnel Setup Guide - Self-Hosting for EVERYONE

Many people have issues self-hosting their services if they're behind a CG-NAT. Luckily, we can get around that with the help of Cloudflare tunnels.

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0:00 Intro
1:12 What are Cloudflare tunnels?
2:06 Setup
4:43 Create the tunnel
5:12 Setup the config file
6:34 DNS
8:00 Ingress setup
9:30 Run the tunnel
10:52 IT WORKS
11:20 Let's make another route
12:45 Install as a service
12:59 We did it
14:29 Comment of the Week
15:16 Conclusion

[treborbones]

Thanks so much for this! I was banging my head against the wall going through the Cloudflare docs, and within 15 minutes I had it going thanks to you!

[acc]

I could not find a solution that worked for me until your video. You took the ouch out of pain. Thanks...Great video!

[leopold]

I've been using Cloudflare for a while now and have a static public IP which has made things a bit easier, but I've had to do all my routing using reverse proxy and having port 443 open, which I'm not overly keen on and sometimes it doesn't work properly. I'd tried the tunnel, with absolutely zero success. But having watched your video, I can not only see where I was going wrong, but I can also now see how to use multiple services over the same tunnel! Thank you so much for explaining it in such a way as to make me think, "Yeah, that's really easy, is that."

[siddharthchordiya]

Its Nice to see that we get to see two Creators in One Video :
1. Brett Himself a.k.a Raid Owl
2. Jeff from Craft Computing (Looking at his t-shirt)
Looks like you are also on the way to become a Homelab Nerd just like him

[phobes]

Oh. My. God.

This is a billion times easier, and probably way more secure, than running a reverse proxy. Thank you!

[KBlakK]

Love your content. Your sense of humor keeps me engaged but your knowledge is impeccable

[tw]

Followed along and got two of my services running! Awesome how to! It's a real life saver having moved to an ISP that is using CGNAT (starlink).

[Grs-im]

Man, you are a God´s bless! I was giving up of my umbrel because of this.. Thank you so much, cheers from Brazil!

[leocode]

This video is soooo important for me as i want to access my services from anywhere but buying a static public ip costs quite a lot

[sharvinzlife]

Thanks 😍
I'm under CG-NAT. I was using Ngork, Tailscale and all, never had a detailed video of Cloudflared tunnel set on YouTube. This is perfect thanks a lot.😍

[peterg]

Awesome Video I love these types of videos ! Loving your self-hosting series of videos keep up the great work your channel made my top 5 must watch list for Tech

[reidcardwell]

Great walk-through! Some of the menus have changed a little, but everything still works exactly as in this video. Thanks!

[karlos-oliveira]

congrats from Brazil man, your video is just what i was looking for, thanks!!!

[Vivek-mvdi]

Followed this and got this up and running. Thanks so much for this tutorial :)

[marioalbertoestrella]

Thanks a lot very straightforward, after 12 hours of banging my head against Cloudflare five minutes after watching your video I have everything running

[henloitsdiego]

i have been struggling for weeks trying to get tunnels to work on my home lab. I followed your instructions (or so i thought) and it didn't work I had to triple check every single command i ran but after 4 containers and 6 VMs, i have finally set it up thanks to you!

[fourmobro]

Great video. Here are some quick follow up questions:
1. If this hosted/external service is currently proxied via HA-proxy in pfSense, should it be removed?
2. Are you still using HA-Proxy for any hosted/external services? If so, which?
3. Have you successfully used this tunnel process to expose your self-hosted bitwarden? Any issues?
4. This method should eliminate the need for running cloudflare_ddns to keep our changing public IP address in sync with Cloudflare, correct?

[KenPryor]

Thank you so much for this video! I've been going crazy trying to figure out how to get around the CG-NAT and this did the trick.

[DamienLee]

What seemed like reading and watching the entire internet of tutorials, even the for dummies ones and getting stuck on this step or that, THIS finally worked!! Almost as easily as I thought it should! I had to make changes, being on windows and I did run into errors for sure. One being that if I pointed to "localhost" it went to a completely different app, so i started over and used my machines IP instead and eventually..voila! Even added an extra app so i knew i could recreate it if i wanted! Thak you so much!

[mattiashedman]

Finally a video that made sense! Without knowing it you did point out a few things I had missed! And the best part, I can now get rid of that monthly $5 fee for a public IP! Thank you! I do hope you take this another step and talk about WARP as well, and how to reach your LAN when your not at home, thus this also replaces my home VPN setup. :)