Hello there,

Did you have situations when you need to have a secure ssl tunnel to your local host to test our verify some integration??

This is annoying as hell. One of the options is to use some tooling like Ngrok but on free version the generated domain changes all the time. This is not handy, but there’s a better option…

I love cloudflare products and recently I found their cool future called “Cloudflare Tunnel”. You can bind dev.yourdoman to your localhost by opening a secure tunnel from your machine. It creates a secure outbound-only connection from your local machine or private server to Cloudflare’s edge network — without opening any public ports or exposing your real IP.

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Here’s a start manual how to do this

The tunnel works flawlessly exposes your localhost in a free convenient secure way. Amazing tool.