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Hamukotoday at 5:38 AM2 repliesview on HN

What's the benefit of Cloudflare Tunnel over just using Wireguard?


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antiherotoday at 6:38 AM

It's free and simple and handles HTTPS termination and can be set up easily using terraform/pulumi.

Interestingly, in the early hours of this morning I switched from Cloudflare Tunnels to a rathole/traefik based solution (well, currently it's port forwarding and a low grade home-baked dyndns solution until I get paid and can afford a cheap hetzner box because I spent all of my money again).

I switched back because I didn't like the added complexity of having to manage the routes, what I'm using it for is technically against ToS, and I like the self-contained nature of my microk8s cluster.

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radicalitytoday at 6:15 AM

Same question from me too - I do have a few services on my homelab at home - stuff like a NAS, synology surveillance, homeassistant, few lxc containers hosting random services on Proxmox - and it all works just fine for my needs with standard WireGuard vpn setup on all my devices (macbook/ipad/iphone/android). What would cloudflare tunnel get me?