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Cloudflare Tunnel
Argo Tunnel creates a secure, outbound-only connection between your services and Cloudflare by deploying a lightweight connector in your environment. With this model, your team does not need to go through the hassle of poking holes in your firewall or validating that traffic originated from Cloudflare IPs.
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Special thanks to Aeleos who worked with us to develop his original guide here: https://github.com/aeleos/cloudflared​
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Assumptions
For this setup, you need to have a domain which is managed by Cloudflare, and can be done on the free plan.
Create App Folder
First we need to make sure we have the app folder ready with the correct permissions. Thanks to this tip from our discord user @noodlemctwoodle, you can use the following command in the Unraid terminal to create the folder and set the correct permissions:
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mkdir -p /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared/ && chmod -R 755 /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared/
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Authorise Cloudflared
There seems to be an issue with the latest version 2021.7.0 of cloudflared from cloudflare. Below commands have been adjusted to pull the 2021.6.0 version for now. Once there is a bug fix from cloudflare we will change this message and the commands back to use the latest.
Update August 25th 2021
No tag (latest) still does not seem to work. However, specifying the latest version:
cloudflare/cloudflared:2021.11.0-amd64 works. 
Note that this means you will need to manually update the container to the current version if you wish to keep it up to date. 
Versions can be found here: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases​
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In unraid terminal, run the following command to authorise Cloudflared with the Cloudflare site you want to setup with a tunnel.
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docker run -it --rm -v /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared:/home/nonroot/.cloudflared/ cloudflare/cloudflared:2021.11.0-amd64 tunnel login
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It will print out a link to Cloudflare. Put this link in your web browser, and select which domain you want to use. Then, the daemon will automatically pull the certificate.
Create a tunnel
Now we need to create a tunnel. To do this we will run another command from the unraid terminal
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docker run -it --rm -v /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared:/home/nonroot/.cloudflared/ cloudflare/cloudflared:2021.11.0-amd64 tunnel create TUNNELNAME
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This will create your tunnels UUID.json file, which contains a secret used to authenticate your tunnelled connection with cloudflare. The JSON file is only needed for running the tunnel, but any tunnel modifications require the cert.pem. More information about what requires what can be found here.
Make sure you copy your UUID, as this will be used in later steps. It can always be found later by the name of the JSON file.
Create the config.yaml
Now we need to create a config.yaml to configure the tunnel
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nano /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared/config.yaml
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Now paste in the following and amend your reverse proxy IP:PORT, tunnel UUID and domain name if applicable
if you have an ssl certificate on your reverse proxy, you need to pass in your domain name that the SSL cert is under
if you want to proxy to an http server, use the commended ingress rule
if you want to disable ssl verification, add noTLSVerify under originRequest
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tunnel: UUID
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credentials-file: /home/nonroot/.cloudflared/UUID.json
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# NOTE: You should only have one ingress tag, so if you uncomment one block comment the others
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# forward all traffic to Reverse Proxy w/ SSL
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ingress:
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  - service: https://REVERSEPROXYIP:PORT
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    originRequest:
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      originServerName: yourdomain.com
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#forward all traffic to Reverse Proxy w/ SSL and no TLS Verify
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#ingress:
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#  - service: https://REVERSEPROXYIP:PORT
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#    originRequest:
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#      noTLSVerify: true
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# forward all traffic to reverse proxy over http
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#ingress:
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#  - service: http://REVERSEPROXYIP:PORT
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See here for more information about ingress rules and how they can be configured
Install cloudflared in unraid
Now, we need to install the app inside the Unraid UI.
Go to the CA Apps Tab
Search for cloudflared
Install from aeleos' Repository
Change the Repository: line to:
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cloudflare/cloudflared:2021.11.0-amd64
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Now we need to change the "Post Arguments". To do this we need to enable the "Advanced View" in the top right corner.
You should see the below command inside of "Post Arguments". Replace UUID the the UUID for your tunnel generated in step 2.
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Post arguments: 
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tunnel run UUID
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Now you can start your container and if all done correctly with no errors, you should have a running tunnel!
Setting up your DNS records
The next step will be to edit your domain DNS records.
If you have an A record already, you can remove this as it is now not needed.
Replace your A record with a CNAME record, that points to the domain root (@) and for the content, you need to add UUID.cfargotunnel.com (inserting your UUID that was copied earlier).
Example
Type
Name
Value
TTL
Status
CNAME
@
UUID.cfargotunnel.com
Automatic
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CNAME
plex
@
Automatic
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CNAME
portainer
@
Automatic
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CNAME
radarr
@
Automatic
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CNAME
sonarr
@
Automatic
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You should now be able to access all of your apps without needed a port forward!
Troubleshooting
Certificate not valid for any names
If you see an error like
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Unable to reach the origin service. The service may be down or it may not be responding to traffic from cloudflared: x509: certificate is not valid for any names, but wanted to match youdomain.com
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In your config.yml try changing yourdomain.com to app.yourdomain.com, where app is a valid subdomain that you have a DNS record for (configured in both cloudflare and your reverse proxy). Despite this being a specific hostname, cloudflared should be able to use this subdomain to verify certificates for your other subdomains as they pass through the tunnel.
Example config.yml
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tunnel: UUID
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credentials-file: /home/nonroot/.cloudflared/UUID.json
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ingress:
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  - service: https://192.168.1.20:18443
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    originRequest:
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      originServerName: app.yourdomain.com
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General Troubleshooting
If you have finished your Argo Tunnel installation and the configuration process, but are still getting error messages, please look for the solution in one of the following links:
​https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029779472-Troubleshooting-Cloudflare-1XXX-errors

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/categories/200276217-Troubleshooting​
Enabling SSH Access via Web Rendered Terminal
Create the DNS record
Create a DNS record for the subdomain you want to go to for SSH access. Below is an example
Type
Name
Value
TTL
Status
CNAME
ssh
domain.com
Automatic
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Add the Ingress Rule
Ingress rules resolve top down, so this rule should be above the - service: https://REVERSEPROXYIP:PORT/ rule.
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  - hostname: ssh.domain.com
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    service: ssh://SSHIP:PORT
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Sign up for Cloudflare Teams
This can be done here, free plan works up to 50 users but needs billing details, you may be able to get it to work with no plan
Add a Teams application 
Add your application for your SSH service and then enable browser based rendering
Guide by cloudflare can be found here​
List and delete tunnels
List tunnels
To list all configured tunnels and see active connections:
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docker run -it --rm -v /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared:/home/nonroot/.cloudflared/ cloudflare/cloudflared:2021.11.0-amd64 tunnel list
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ID
NAME
CREATED
CONNECTIONS
NAMEID in hex
NAME of the tunnel
TIMESTAMP Date and time created
NUMBERxCFPOINT
Delete tunnels
To revoke and delete a tunnel:
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docker run -it --rm -v /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared:/home/nonroot/.cloudflared/ cloudflare/cloudflared:2021.11.0-amd64 tunnel delete TUNNELID
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If there are still active connections on the tunnel you need to force the deletion. Connections will be dropped:
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docker run -it --rm -v /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared:/home/nonroot/.cloudflared/ cloudflare/cloudflared:2021.11.0-amd64 tunnel delete -f TUNNELID
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Deleting the Tunnel also invalidates the credentials file associated with that Tunnel, meaning those connections can not be re-established.
Multiple domains
If you have multiple different domains and you want to use the tunnel and Cloudflared container, you only need to copy the UUID.cfargotunnel.com used for the CNAME across to other domains in Cloudflare.
There is no need to deploy multiple containers of Cloudflared. One container can do multiple domains. 
You also do not need to modify your YAML any further. One valid subdomain entry is enough. 
Multiple containers
If you still decide to run multiple containers (for example, if you wanted redundancy) you can check those connections with command in your Unraid terminal:
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docker run -it --rm -v /mnt/user/appdata/cloudflared:/home/nonroot/.cloudflared/ cloudflare/cloudflared tunnel info UUID
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If you have one container using the single tunnel UUID and one/multiple domains using the single tunnel, you will only get 1 record when using the cli command.
If you have 2+ containers using the single tunnel UUID and one/multiple domains using the single tunnel, you will get a record for each cloudflared container when using the cli command.
Plex / Media Servers
WARNING
IT IS AGAINST CLOUDFLARE TERMS OF SERVICE TO USE PROXYING VIA CLOUDFLARE FOR ANY CONTENT THAT IS NOT HTML TRAFFIC. 
THIS INCLUDES THE STREAMING OF MEDIA VIA THEIR NETWORK. 
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YOU RISK YOUR CLOUDFLARE ACCOUNT BEING BANNED IF YOU DO NOT HEED THIS WARNING!
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FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO THE OFFICIAL TOS:
​https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/terms/​
SPECIFICALLY SECTION 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content
To safeguard yourself - turn the proxy off on any subdomains which do not use HTML content by changing the cloud icon in DNS to grey (proxy off).
Final Words
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