Ridiculously easy to use Tunnels
Mar 25, 2022Abe Carryl
Summary
This post introduces a significant simplification to the Cloudflare Tunnel creation and management process by enabling it directly from the Zero Trust dashboard. This new GUI-driven approach reduces the required steps from up to 14 CLI commands to just three. It eliminates the need for local configuration files and the management of separate authentication tokens (`cert.pem` and `Tunnel_UUID.json`), as these are now handled by the dashboard. The post also details how this new workflow integrates with both clientless (via Access) and client-based (via WARP and Gateway) Zero Trust deployments, and outlines future plans for migration tooling and support for global configuration options.
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