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# Cloudflare Zero Trust

## Zero Trust / Tunnels

Tunnels are managed by [Dockflare](/homelab/service-overviews/security/dockflare.md)

[Link to App](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/products/tunnel/)

The Cloudflare tunnel is a port-forwarding-less reverse proxy. The traffic is tunneled through Cloudflare servers reducing the risk of DDOS and other malicious attacks. Another advantage is that Cloudflare handles authentication, so its harder to brute force one of our internal services.

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