Using Cloudflare R2 as an apt/yum repository
Sep 15, 2022Sudarsan Reddy

Summary
This post details how Cloudflare uses R2 object storage and a Cloudflare Worker to host apt and yum repositories for distributing cloudflared. It explains the structure of apt/yum repositories, how to create .deb packages using fpm, generate repository metadata with reprepro, upload these files to R2, and serve them via a Cloudflare Worker. This enables a scalable, serverless, and globally distributed package distribution system.