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Benefits of Cloudflare Access (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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.

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

I use it within my Kubernetes to expose services outsides my house, and then I use Azure AD to manage access.

I know this isn’t very self hosted, but for me where I have a dynamic IP and don’t want to play with port forwarding, it’s really good. Nice and easy especially with Kubernetes and the helm chart I wrote

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Don’t you need to configure DDNS regardless? And port forwarding as well unless you went with tunnels?

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    For cloudflare tunnels no, it does a nat punch through I think it's called, where it connects from inside your network out to 2 edge locations to cloudlfare, where it then can send traffic back and forwards.

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    If I wanted to expose by port forwarding, then yes you are correct, I could configure ddns.

    Personally, I would configure my own version of DDNS where it's just a cron job once every 5 minutes to run terraform and check if my public IP has changed, and if it has run an apply.

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    Does that answer the question?

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