cloudflare/cloudflared

Cloudflare Tunnel client

DevOps & infrastructureGo#cloudflare#reverse-proxy#cloudflare-tunnel#zero-trust-network-access

2.9 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 19, 2026.

About the project

Cloudflare Tunnel client: a daemon that proxies traffic from the Cloudflare network to your origins without opening firewall ports. It also provides access to Layer 4 TCP services (SSH, RDP) via `cloudflared access`.

Useful for

Publish a local web server to the internet via Cloudflare Tunnel without port forwarding
Reach a private host over SSH or RDP using `cloudflared access`
Run cloudflared in Docker next to an app for protected access

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

11 stars so far today, about 28 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 13 per day, so that's 2.2× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 2.7× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +50 stars.
Recent forks include notable developers: @seydx (235 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 15,750
Stars in a day: 28
Forks: 1,446
Issues and pull requests: 1,658
Watchers: 140
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: 2026.9.1 · September 11, 2026
Created: October 13, 2017
Last push: September 17, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 19, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +50 stars

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