Public hostnames

With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can expose your HTTP resources to the Internet via a public hostname. For example, you can add a route that points docs.example.com to localhost:8080. Anyone can now view your local application by going to docs.example.com in their web browser.

Cloudflare can route traffic to your Cloudflare Tunnel connection using a DNS record or Cloudflare Load Balancer. You can configure either option from the Cloudflare dashboard by pointing a DNS CNAME record or a load balancer pool to the Cloudflare Tunnel subdomain for your connection. You can also associate these records with your tunnel from cloudflared directly.

Note

You do not need a paid Cloudflare Access plan to publish an application via Cloudflare Tunnel. Access seats are only required if you want to secure the application using Access policies, such as requiring users to log in via an identity provider.