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Problem

How to use the cloudflared command: Create a persistent connection to the Cloudflare network. More information: <https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-tunnel/>.

Solution

cloudflared — Create a persistent connection to the Cloudflare network. More information: <https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-tunnel/>.

Authenticate and associate the connection to a domain in the Cloudflare account:

cloudflared tunnel login

Create a tunnel with a specific name:

cloudflared tunnel create {{name}}

List all tunnels in the account:

cloudflared tunnel list

Create a DNS CNAME record pointing to a tunnel:

cloudflared tunnel route dns {{name|uuid}} {{hostname}}

Save logs to a file:

cloudflared tunnel --loglevel {{panic|fatal|error|warn|info|debug}} --logfile {{path/to/file}} run {{name}}

Run a named tunnel (reads configuration from config.yml):

cloudflared tunnel run {{name}}

Start a temporary tunnel to expose a local service (no account required):

cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:{{port}}

Install cloudflared as a system service:

cloudflared service install

Code Snippets

Authenticate and associate the connection to a domain in the Cloudflare account

cloudflared tunnel login

Create a tunnel with a specific name

cloudflared tunnel create {{name}}

List all tunnels in the account

cloudflared tunnel list

Create a DNS CNAME record pointing to a tunnel

cloudflared tunnel route dns {{name|uuid}} {{hostname}}

Save logs to a file

cloudflared tunnel --loglevel {{panic|fatal|error|warn|info|debug}} --logfile {{path/to/file}} run {{name}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/cloudflared

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