awesome-tunneling VS cloudflared

Compare awesome-tunneling vs cloudflared and see what are their differences.

awesome-tunneling

List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting. (by anderspitman)
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awesome-tunneling

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-tunneling. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-20.
  • Portr: Open-Source Ngrok Alternative
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2024
    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
  • Can You Grok It – Hacking Together Your Own Dev Tunnel Service
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024
    awesome-tunneling lists a number of ngrok alternatives: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39754786

    - FWIU headscale works with the tailscale client and supports MagicDNS

  • Do You Need IPv4 Anymore?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
    There are a whole bunch of alternatives too - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. I will advocate for zrok.io as I work on its parent project, OpenZiti. zrok is open source and has a free SaaS as well as more built in security.
  • Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. Seems similar to zrok.io, ngrok, cloudflare tunnels, tailscale funnels and zrok although you're using http/3 explicitly.

    Personally I work on two similar projects you might want to check out: zrok and OpenZiti. Similar projects, but zrok is closest to what you did here.

  • Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:

    OG localtunnel (2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...

    Other localtunnel (2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...

    ngrok (2012): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...

    I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    [1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

  • Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
    I haven't tried vscode forwarding. What features does it have that are missing from most of the options on the list[0]?

    If you want a nice GUI for remote managing maybe check out one of my tools, boringproxy

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

  • JIT WireGuard
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    I maintain this list:

    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    Your use case sounds interesting and there may be a tool out there that will do it, but I can't quite wrap my head around your description of how everything is connected and what runs where with your current setup.

    I agree with sibling that my main question is what prevents you from using SSHFS or similar?

  • Hesitating between Tailscale Funnel / Cloudflare tunnel and others
    1 project | /r/Tailscale | 11 Dec 2023
    I'm starting to try to get into Cloudflare tunnel, Tailscale funnel and other alternatives. What I need is my services to be accessible without any installation client-side, and I'm unsure what services provide this. I also looked at solutions like BoringProxy, TunnelMole from this page : https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling My goal is to have my current domain rented at OVH pointing to my server to make it as much like before as possible.
  • My ISP doesn't allow port forwarding. What are my options ?
    1 project | /r/HomeNetworking | 10 Dec 2023
    Here's a list of options to get around CGNAT: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
  • Would we still create Nebula today?
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2023
    We have a section for overlay networks on the tunneling list[0] I maintain. This is a very interesting space with some excellent software.

    I certainly have my gripes about the closed nature of Slack itself, in particular using a closed protocol when the model is clearly "federated" between multiple servers internally. That said, the contribution of something on the scale and quality of Nebula back to the open source community is hard to argue with.

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling#overlay-ne...

cloudflared

Posts with mentions or reviews of cloudflared. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-12.
  • How Does FreeBSD Compare to Linux on a Raspberry Pi?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
    I run a RaspberryPi 3 with FreeBSD 13 booting off an SD card and a USB SSD for storage [1]. Coincidentally today (1/7/2024) is its one year anniversary.

    It runs a jail with my single user GotoSocial ActivityPub server [2] reasonably well with cloudflared [3] handling incoming traffic and acting as CDN to take some of the load. Originally it was only using an SD card, but there was too much IO contention so a USB-SSD adapter is used to offload the IO.

    I choose FreeBSD over Linux since I have other Rpis with Linux already and wanted more experience with *BSD, jails, and ZFS. Unfortunately ZFS wasn't the best choice on an Rpi since it's more cpu intensive and switched back to UFS.

    Overall it's been solid, multiple GTS updates and have it on my list to update to FreedBSD 14 but not really in a rush.

    1. https://social.ecliptik.com/@micheal/statuses/01GP860MYM2CGH...

    2. https://gotosocial.org/

    3. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared

  • Colab error on second call with stable diffusion xl refiner
    3 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 12 Aug 2023
    # Install apt dependencies !apt install dotnet-sdk-7.0 git # Install Clouldflared (not on apt) !wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb !dpkg -i cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb # Download StableSwarmUI !git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI # Download ComfyUI backend %cd /content/StableSwarmUI !mkdir /content/StableSwarmUI/dlbackend %cd /content/StableSwarmUI/dlbackend !git clone https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI %cd /content/StableSwarmUI/dlbackend/ComfyUI # Setup ComfyUI !pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Unable to update Cloudflared on debian
    1 project | /r/CloudFlare | 13 Jul 2023
    curl -L --output cloudflared.deb https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i cloudflared.deb && sudo systemctl restart cloudflared
  • Servarr : One docker compose file to rule them all (Jellyfin, radarr, sonarr, firefox, duplicati...)
    3 projects | /r/docker | 28 Jun 2023
    Something like cloudflared would be awesome. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
  • KoboldAI?
    2 projects | /r/VenusAI_Official | 5 Jun 2023
    if you're on windows, you can install it with the exe: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-windows-amd64.exe (or https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-windows-386.exe if your using 32bit windows.)
  • PSA - Cloudflared 2023.5.0 Issue
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 10 May 2023
    So, the "more than one" issue is kind of discussed HERE and HERE but for sure, for whatever reason, this caused me sleepless nights.
  • Problem related to UI interface
    2 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 22 Apr 2023
    %cd /content/naifu !pip install virtualenv && bash ./setup.sh !curl -Ls https://github.com/ekzhang/bore/releases/download/v0.4.0/bore-v0.4.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | tar zx -C /usr/bin !curl -Lo /usr/bin/cloudflared https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64 && chmod +x /usr/bin/cloudflared !/content/naifu/venv/bin/python -m pip install -qq pytorch_lightning==1.7.7
  • Nginx Proxy Manager giving me 526 Invalid SSL certficate error.
    1 project | /r/CloudFlare | 1 Apr 2023
    Anyway, here is the Github link for Cloudflared (aka Cloudflare Tunnel client) which should allow you to remotely tunnel into your Synology server instead of using the HTTP-based reverse proxying method: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
  • How a reverse proxy like Cloudflare works in front of kub clusters?
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 18 Mar 2023
    As an alternative to traditional ingress, you can use cloudflared to expose web apps on Cloudflare via encrypted tunnels: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
  • Need help setting up jellyfin remote access without router access.
    1 project | /r/jellyfin | 16 Mar 2023
    You could use cloudflared

What are some alternatives?

When comparing awesome-tunneling and cloudflared you can also consider the following projects:

frp - A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.

yunohost - YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

SirTunnel - Minimal, self-hosted, 0-config alternative to ngrok. Caddy+OpenSSH+50 lines of Python.

Bypass_CGNAT - Wireguard setup to bypass CGNAT with a VPS

remotemoe - tunnels to localhost and other ssh plumbing

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

sish - HTTP(S)/WS(S)/TCP Tunnels to localhost using only SSH.

ngrok-c - ngrok client for c language,Due to the use of GO ngrok language development, porting to embedded devices some inconvenience, such as openwrt, so use C language rewrite a client. Very mini, the need to support polarssl library.