Benefits of Cloudflare Access - eviltoast

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.

  • avdept@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s not much reasons of exposing any of your local services to internet. Use vpn to have access to your local resources. This is best you can come up with for your home lab

    • tradinghumble@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Question : what if I need to access my home computer from a work laptop and I’m not allowed to install things such as the WireGuard VPN client. Do I use native say Windows VPN?

      • adamshand@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Assuming it’s a Linux server at home and you can use SSH on your work computer, there’s a couple ways to do this.

        • Install a web based terminal client
        • Setup Cloudflare tunnels on your home server and use the the SSH proxy. I do this with a simple helper in ~/.ssh/config:
        Match host "*.cf"
  ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/cloudflared access ssh --hostname $(echo %h | sed 's/\.cf$/.homelab.nz/')
  ForwardAgent yes