dokku-cf-tunnel-update

Expose Dokku apps on a home server via Cloudflare tunnels by keeping their service IPs updated on app deployments and restarts.

WARNING: This plugin will erase any existing config you have of a tunnel, so be careful the first time you use it especially!

Getting Started

• Install cloudflared on your Dokku server https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
• Install Ruby on your server (tested with Ruby 3.0.2)
• Install the plugin sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/zachfeldman/dokku-cf-tunnel-update
• Set your credentials at /home/dokku/.cf-tunnel-env for the program to find: CF_AUTH_TOKEN, CF_ACCOUNT_UUID, and CF_TUNNEL_UUID and source it (CF_AUTH_TOKEN is a Cloudflare API Token with the Account:Cloudflare Tunnel:Edit permission).
  • You may need to set them in both your home user and the Dokku user depending on your context of deployment or app restart.
• Run an app deployment or restart
  • On the first run, you may need to add a CNAME record pointing to your Cloudflare tunnel, which is usually <tunnel_uuid>.cfargotunnel.com

Ensuring IPs are correct on system restart

You'll need to install the systemd service in this repository by copying the dokku-ps-restart-cf-tunnel-update.service file to /etc/systemd/system .

Then you'll have to set your credentials by running sudo systemctl edit dokku-ps-restart-cf-tunnel-update.service, which will bring up a screen similar to this where you can bring up your credentials:

### Editing /etc/systemd/system/dokku-ps-restart-cf-tunnel-update.service.d/override.conf
### Anything between here and the comment below will become the new contents of the file

[Service]
Environment="CF_ACCOUNT_UUID=<your-account-uuid>"
Environment="CF_TUNNEL_UUID=<your-account-uuid>"
Environment="CF_AUTH_TOKEN=<your-auth-token"

### Lines below this comment will be discarded

### /etc/systemd/system/dokku-ps-restart-cf-tunnel-update.service
# [Unit]
# Description=Dokku app ps restart to ensure Cloudflare IPs are accurate
# Requires=dokku-redeploy.service
# After=dokku-redeploy.service
# 
# [Service]
# Type=oneshot
# User=dokku
# ExecStart=/usr/bin/dokku ps:restart --all
# 
# [Install]
# WantedBy=docker.service

Reload the systemctl-daemon settings using: sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Then try running the service with: sudo systemctl start dokku-ps-restart-cf-tunnel-update

Then ensure it runs on start up with: sudo systemctl enable dokku-ps-restart-cf-tunnel-update.service

Specifying other tunnels besides Dokku apps

If you have other tunnels you want to persist between deploys, you can put a .cf-tunnel-config file at /home/dokku with them. There's a .cf-tunnel-config-sample in the repo you can refer to, but this basically gets injected into the request to the Cloudflare API when setting up your tunnel as an additional tunnel in the list.

Caveats, Future Roadmap

This is a working plugin, but it has a few caveats and things not developed yet:

• HTTPS is only working from the browser to Cloudflare, not Cloudflare to the app.
  • LetsEncrypt plugin is not currently working with this set up
• There's no help command or other nice to haves for this plugin
• The core of the logic is implemented in Ruby, so it has to be installed in order to use the app - it was a bit hard to write more of it in bash easily. Perhaps this could be fixed in a future update, or it might be the right approach anyway.