Cloudflare

· 1 min read · Networking and Delivery · Cloud platform

Cloudflare runs a global network that sits in front of your servers. It provides authoritative DNS, a proxy and CDN, TLS certificates, DDoS protection and a web application firewall, plus developer services such as Workers. It does not host virtual machines, so it is used together with a cloud like AWS.

Key concepts #

  • Zone: a domain managed in Cloudflare, with its DNS records and settings.
  • Proxied record: a DNS record whose web traffic goes through Cloudflare.
  • Ruleset: rules grouped by phase, such as the custom firewall rules.
  • cloudflare provider: the provider for Terraform and OpenTofu. Authenticate it with an API token.

Learn it #

Follow Terraform with Cloudflare.

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