Serve apps using Cloudflare tunnels

Why cloudflare tunnel?

I used cloudflare tunnel to setup a staging env for my apps using my old laptop. CF tunnels has the following benefits

No need to expose ports other than 80 and 443. So its secure.
No port forwardign in modem to expose ports to internet. So home network is safe.
Can setup SSL certs for free using cloudflare

Attach domain to Cloudflare by setting nameserver (NS) to cloudflare nameservers
Create a tunnel
- CloudFlare home -> Zero Trust -> Networks -> Tunnels
- Create Tunnel -> Copy token (used in next step)
- Tunnel -> Public Host Name -> Add public hostname
- *.domainname.com -> service: HTTPS://localhost:443 (Wildcard sub domain)
- Additional application settings -> TLS -> origin server name -> *.domainname.com
- This will automatically add an entry in DNS table,
- If not add it manually, NAME = *; CNAME = tunnelId.cfargotunnel.com
- Repeat steps for base domain and other domains
- Multiple domains can be added in same tunnel
Coolify cloudflared service
- Create cloudflared service - set token as env
- Server -> Wildcard Domain -> https://domainname.com (needs to be https)
- Settings -> Instance Settings -> Instance’s Domain -> coolify.domainname.com
- Other services -> domain -> https://anysubdomain.domainname.com
- Services might need their port exposed for local (same network) service access. Not necessary for tunnel access