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    #473 this week

    Cloudflare Tunnel client

    networking
    cloudflare
    cloudflare-tunnel
    reverse-proxy
    zero-trust-network-access
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    16.2K stars
    1.5K forks
    16.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 19, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #473 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 15%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 102 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #50 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 12, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Proxies traffic securely from the Cloudflare network to your origin servers using a tunneling daemon.
    • Eliminates the need to open firewall ports by routing traffic through Cloudflare, enhancing security and simplifying access.
    • Use for securely exposing internal web servers to the internet without firewall changes.
    • Use for accessing private TCP services like SSH or RDP through encrypted tunnels.
    • Use for integrating with Cloudflare Load Balancers to route traffic efficiently to multiple origins.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Contains the command-line client for Cloudflare Tunnel, a tunneling daemon that proxies traffic from the Cloudflare network to your origins. This daemon sits between Cloudflare network and your origin (e.g. a webserver). Cloudflare attracts client requests and sends them to you via this daemon, without requiring you to poke holes on your firewall --- your origin can remain as closed as possible. Extensive documentation can be found in the Cloudflare Tunnel section of the Cloudflare Docs. All usages related with proxying to your origins are available under cloudflared tunnel help.

    You can also use cloudflared to access Tunnel origins (that are protected with cloudflared tunnel) for TCP traffic at Layer 4 (i.e., not HTTP/websocket), which is relevant for use cases such as SSH, RDP, etc. Such usages are available under cloudflared access help.

    You can instead use WARP client to access private origins behind Tunnels for Layer 4 traffic without requiring cloudflared access commands on the client side.

    Downloads are available as standalone binaries, a Docker image, and Debian, RPM, and Homebrew packages. You can also find releases here on the cloudflared GitHub repository.

    User documentation for Cloudflare Tunnel can be found at https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps

    Excerpt from the cloudflare/cloudflared README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Jul 30: +16Jul 31: +14Aug 1: +7Aug 19: +14Aug 20: +14Aug 31: +8Sep 3: +12Sep 4: +7Sep 5: +20Sep 6: +7Sep 15: +12Sep 16: +4Sep 17: +52Sep 18: +34Sep 19: +47Sep 20: +55Sep 21: +27Sep 22: +23Sep 23: +19Sep 24: +15Sep 25: +17Sep 26: +5Sep 27: +14Sep 28: +11Oct 2: +5Oct 3: +14Oct 4: +14Oct 5: +7

    +1,232 stars over 88 days across 37 snapshot days; best day +55 on Sep 20.

    Forks

    1.5K+123

    Open issues

    568+47

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