Replace your VPN
Learning path
Give users secure, auditable network and application access.
Modules: 6 Reading time: 33 min
Concepts
Concepts explain the basic ideas behind how Cloudflare Zero Trust works.
Application services dashboard setup
Creating an account and onboarding a domain is the first step to securely onboarding a self-hosted application.
Zero Trust services dashboard setup
The next step to securely onboarding your self-hosted application is to initialize and configure your Zero Trust services dashboard.
Connect your private network to Cloudflare
Cloudflare Tunnel connects applications and services to Cloudflare’s network. Cloudflare Tunnel is an outbound-only daemon service that can run on nearly any host machine and proxies local traffic once validated from the Cloudflare network.
Agentless access to private web services
Cloudflare supports Zero Trust, identity-aware access to internal HTTP applications without the need to use a device client. This step will require an active DNS zone on Cloudflare in the same account in which you are building your Zero Trust …
Connect user devices to Cloudflare
The WARP client encrypts designated traffic from a user’s device to Cloudflare’s edge. It can run alongside other VPN clients so long as there are no route conflicts.