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Just getting started with self hosting. I was wondering if anyone had experience with Cloudflare Tunnels for exposing their services to the internet. I like the simplicity and security it offers but don't love the idea of using Cloudflare. Like, I'm self hosting for a reason lol. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

For context, I'm running all of my services in a very small k8s cluster and my priorities are mostly security then maintainability. Thanks yall!

EDIT: yall are great! Thank you so much for the replies. I'm going try my luck with pangolin but its good to know I have options.

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[โ€“] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm fairly sure what you mean is, traffic is decrypted in the middle and the re-encrypted before it gets sent your way. Otherwise they couldn't do proxying or threat detection/mitigation for you.

[โ€“] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You're right, sorry, that was a heavy brain fart. The data needs to be decrypted on cloudflare's end before being proxied and send to your services.