I have no idea what I am doing!
- This a blog about Home Labs and Self-Hosting.
Creating a Cloudflare Tunnel
Exposing some of my services to the internet involves forwarding ports on my router (specifically 80 and 443) to the machines hosting them. This is bad and makes me paranoid. I wanted to be able to reach these services from outside without compromising my networks security by setting up a Cloudflare Tunnel and NGINX Proxy Manager Cloudflare’s Tunnel According to Cloudflare themselves, a Cloudflare Tunnel… …exposes applications running on your local web server on any network with an internet connection without manually adding DNS records or configuring a firewall or router....
But why?
Inspired by the r/selfhosted and r/homelab subreddits I have recently created a small home lab environment and been leveraging percussive maintenance (or hitting it until it works) to set up various open source projects, with the aim of maybe learning something en route. I’m going to use this blog (mainly) as an incentive to capture the detail of some of these projects to ensure I have reference documentation when something inevitably explodes, but also because it might even help someone else out....