How Cloudflare keeps employees productive from any location

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This post details the internal development and rollout of Cloudflare Access, a system designed to replace traditional corporate VPNs. It highlights the technical implementation of Access running on Cloudflare Workers, acting as an identity proxy at each data center for scalability. The post describes how Access integrates with identity providers for authentication, uses Argo Tunnel for secure outbound connections, and enables features like one-click SSO for internal applications (specifically the Atlassian suite), SSH access to resources, an Access App Launch for simplified onboarding, and per-request logging for security auditing. It also mentions the free offering of Cloudflare for Teams during the COVID-19 emergency.