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.
Don’t you need to configure DDNS regardless? And port forwarding as well unless you went with tunnels?
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.
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.
Does that answer the question?
Ye, I though tunnels needed a public ip still but it makes sense it doesn’t given there’s a service running in your network that can do that check
Whoa that’s a clever solution for ddns
There’s a great tiny little program/docker container called cf-ddns that is great for this