Dogfooding from Home: How Cloudflare Built our Cloud VPN Replacement

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This post details the internal development and adoption of Cloudflare Access as a replacement for traditional VPNs. It highlights the motivation for building Access (dogfooding), its evolution from EdgeAuth to supporting various protocols (HTTP, Git), and its benefits for a global team (edge authentication, performance, reliability). It also emphasizes the zero-trust model, granular permissions via Access Groups, extensive logging, and simplified onboarding/offboarding processes.