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What's this blog post about?

On November 23, 2017, a blog post announced the launch of Argo Tunnel (formerly known as Warp), a product by Cloudflare that allows users to expose locally running web servers to the internet without needing a public IP address or opening firewall ports. The tunnel connects the web server directly to the Cloudflare network, where Cloudflare acts as the gateway. This setup provides enhanced security and control over incoming requests, including rate limits, access policies, and authentication before they reach the origin server. Warp is easy to set up and can be used for load balancing multiple instances of an application or setting up user authentication for exposing internal tools to the internet. The post also mentioned that users could automate Warp with Docker for seamless integration with containerized applications.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Nov. 23, 2017

Author(s)
Dani Grant

Word count
834

Language
English

Hacker News points
18


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