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.

  • 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