Run Cloudflare Tunnel in Docker to expose homelab services through Cloudflare’s edge. No open firewall ports, automatic HTTPS, and per-service ingress rules via a single cloudflared container.
Cloudflare Tunnel gives you a secure outbound-only connection from your homelab to Cloudflare’s edge, proxying public traffic without opening any firewall ports. No pinholes, no DMZ, no exposing your home IP. The usual deployment is a Docker container or a systemd service on a Linux box. But if you have a MikroTik router running RouterOS 7.6+ with container support, you can run cloudflared directly on the router — zero extra hardware, zero extra VMs. ...