Access Your Self Hosted Services WITHOUT Port Forwarding

For more than a year we've been talking about using a reverse proxy to access your self-hosted apps via a domain name.

In this video we're going to take a look at setting up remote access to your self-hosted applications with CloudFlare Tunnels. Using CloudFlare Tunnels allows us to create an encrypted connection between our server(s) and CloudFlare without the need to forward any ports.

Prerequisites
We only need 2 things to get things set up (aside from our Docker server and self-hosted apps):
1. A domain name from your favorite registrar
2. A CloudFlare account

Resource links:
✅ https://dash.teams.cloudflare.com/
✅ https://hub.docker.com/r/cloudflare/cloudflared
✅ https://dbt3ch.com/books/access-your-self-hosted-services-without-port-forwarding/page/cloudflare-tunnels

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Here is the docker-compose you can use to deploy this in Portainer:

version: "3"
services:
  cloudflared:
    command:
      - tunnel
      - --no-autoupdate
      - run
      - --token
      - <your_token_here>
    container_name: cloudflared
    image: cloudflare/cloudflared:latest
    restart: always

There is probably a cleaner way to do this, but this works.