I’ve seen a post on here before about Cloudflare tunnels being unsafe for exposing your locally hosted services to the web which I totally get.

However I’m a bit of a noob with complex VPN set ups and I tried to get Wireguard working in Docker but couldn’t. I got a tunnel configured and exchanged all the peer keys and things but I think my initial networking docker-compose stack was incorrect possibly. Also the windows client for it is a bit ugly but that’s by the by.

I’ve also used Tailscale in the past which is great but it feels like a temporary solution to me as you still have to remember ports and things (there may be a way around that if I remember correctly but I’d rather stay away from Tailscale. I prefer having control myself or through my domain name - probably illogical I know).

Instead I decided to try to protect the Cloudflare tunnel to my home network and I’ve made a policy in Cloudflare Access that won’t let you in without emailing you a code (only my email address works) and having you enter it. I’d also rather adjust that to my 2FA app but I can’t seem to get that to work here.

My question is: is that secure enough? And if not, what would you all suggest as an alternative (preferably an alternative that is pretty easy and means I can use my domain name)?

  • atheken@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is basically my config:

    wireguard:
    container_name: wireguard
    image: weejewel/wg-easy
    volumes:
      - ./data/wiregaurd:/etc/wireguard
    environment:
      - WG_DEFAULT_DNS=192.168.10.3
      - WG_HOST=public.example.com
    env_file:
      - ./env/wg-easy.secrets
    ports:
      - 51820:51820/udp
      - 51820:51820/tcp
    expose:
      - 51821
    restart: always
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - SYS_MODULE
    depends_on:
      - pihole
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
      - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1

    In my case, I reverse proxy port 51821 through caddy to configure clients (with Authelia in front of it), but you could expose it interally only if you want to prevent that interface from being publicly accessible.

    Note that public.example.com needs to be replaced with your connection’s public dns hostname (you can use something like duckdns for this if you want), and that you need to expose 51820 on your firewall/router. In my example above, 192.168.10.3 is the IP for pihole, and resolves some internal hostnames. You should look over the config provided once you set up a client and make sure it uses accessible hostnames, etc.

    I don’t think there’s any specific reason to worry about using cloudflare tunnels over any other VPN solution, and if your connection uses NATCG, you might actually need something that tunnels out to a central hub.