Cloudflared

This is going to be a bit of a follow-up on an earlier article on Cloudflare SSH tunneling where we configured SSH-tunneling through Cloudflare’s WARP-client. In this article we’ll configure Cloudflare’s cloudlared-tunnel and a Zero Trust Application to expose a browser rendered terminal to our server.

Being able to log into your servers from everywhere with an internet connection is convenient as you never know when something may decide to break. However, exposing your ssh-connection to the open web can pose security risks if not done correctly. There’s a plethora of solutions to help with this, e.g. Tailscale, OpenVPN, ngrok, or similar VPN providers. In this article we’ll focus on Cloudflare’s cloudflared1 to securely tunnel ssh connections to a remote server.