Local tunnel

Summary

This article covers the case when a service needs to be exposed to the internet to test for example a webhook or a callback while running the service locally.

Install cloudflared

Follow up instructions from the (official documentation) (opens new window)

Login to cloudflared

cloudflared login

List the available tunnels

cloudflared tunnel list

Make sure avantus-test is in the list

Create a config file under ~/.cloudflared/config.yml

nano ~/.cloudflared/config.yml

ingress:
  # Rules map traffic from a hostname to a local service:
  - hostname: test.avantus.dev
    service: http://localhost:8000
  # An example of a catch-all rule:
  - service: http_status:404

Run the tunnel

cloudflared tunnel run avantus-test