How to use Cloudflare Tunnel in your Homelab (even with Traefik)

This is a tutorial on how to use Cloudflare Tunnels in a Homelab to make internal applications easily accessible on the public internet securely. The video covers the benefits of using Cloudflare Tunnels for personal websites, Homelab dashboards, or any web-based application that needs to be accessed from outside the network without complicated router configuration. And it also discusses the security of Cloudflare Tunnels and shares best practices for exposing administrative interfaces. #homelab #cloudflare #cloudflaretunnel

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Advertisement-*
01:42 - How Cloudflare Tunnel works
03:13 - Getting started
04:49 - Set up first Cloudflare Tunnel
05:49 - Deploy Cloudflare Tunnel in Docker-Compose
10:50 - Set up first public hostname
13:12 - Use Cloudflare Tunnel with Traefik
19:18 - Access Control

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[rbdconstantine]

I would so love to meet this guy and be best friends with him and every time I watch his videos I feel so influenced to dive into technology more and more it’s crazy!

[ronkierstead]

I watched this to learn more about the access control feature for self hosted, and that wildcard "*" was the answer I was looking for. Thank you!

[henrysowell]

I would love to see a video on the authentication recommendation and setup! Great video!

[shiftrip]

I took up web hosting as a hobby project and have watched so many videos... none of them did what you do at 12:19 by simply adding the container name as URL. Would've never found that out on my own. Absolutely fantastic video!

[whiteout]

ich wurde schon bekloppt mit vaultwarden und reverse proxy - mit cloudflare gehts so easy - DANKE !! du hast mir den feiertag gerettet

[darrenoshaughnessy]

PERFECT Timing! I've been using CloudFlare tunnel on my server for a while, but decided to do a cleanup/consolidation on my Docker networks. Realized I had used the command line to set the tunnel up originally, but wanted to set up a stack in Portainer to handle future updates. Everything I need was in the tutorial (BTW - I think there might be a typo in the command to set up the token). THANKS!

[oseikwamejones]

Thanks Senior, after wandering around, you solved my problem easily. Am here for good!

[RedVegas]

You saved my day I couldn’t thank you enough for figuring out you have to include both domain names in the traefik label I was stuck for hours.

[damyanmp]

amazing! The 404 cost me HOURS! I couldn't figure out why it's re-routing traffic externally but not internally in the cluster. Made the same change as you did but not with labels per service, instead added a route in the ingress. 10 seconds of gold

[warpdotdev]

This is a great video, Christian! Thank you for shouting out Warp in the beginning 👍

[codester_d]

Been using this setup for months now. Setting up Cloudflare access to use authentik for the oidc was pretty straightforward.

[AnthWinter]

The videos on your channel have helped SO much! Any idea/question I've had, you seem to always have a video for it with answers. Awesome stuff.

[thiagobarrichelo]

Hey buddy, thanks a lot for this exclellent tutorial. Your tshoot demonstrating the need for both fqdn's in the Traefik Ingress Route saved me a good deal of time to figure out why setup wasn't working. You're the best thanks a lot!!!👍😀

[ArthurOnline]

Yes! Yes! Yes! on the Cloudflare video, absolutely would love to go deeper, thank you

[Theborg]

hey saw a clip before on this and started to look around a bit. but you are doing much better and looking forward to your clips. Has helped a lot to get ahead and also got answers to many questions.

[coolioinglesias]

Damn, you fixed my life with the tip of adding the double pipe for the logical OR instruction <3

[srgio]

That's amazing. I have a network with the same setup, and I couldn't manage to get to work cloudfare tunnels + traefik. Thanks a lot for sharing!

[EduardoSantanaSeverino]

Excellent, exactly what I was waiting for.

[completelyMT]

Great video. Would love to see a video on setting up the various authentication methods and creating better policies for self hosted apps (including allowing API access to them). Thanks heaps

[nickswebtsv]

I literally just worked out how to do this myself last weekend. Good to see if what I was doing is what everyone does with integrating Cloudflared and Traefik.