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Not OP, i've heard nothing but good things about cloudflare tunnels but for me they have two major drawbacks. The first is you can't use them for a self hosted media server such as jellyfin as it violates their terms of service. The second is you have to trust them with all your traffic. Now i have no reason to think they would do anything nefarious but i'm at the point in my threat model journey that the less i trust in any corporations hands the better. Just my two cents.
I find it disappointing that everyone's first suggestion in the selfhosted community is Cloudflare. It seems to run counter to the spirit of selfhosting to hand off the last part to the giant corporation that controls 90% of the Internet.
Most of what Cloudflare does—if it's necessary at all—can be replicated with a cheap (or free) VPS sitting in front of your network on a VPN, and the remainder doesn't matter for most selfhosted use cases.
I am familiar with tunnels in general, though I haven't seen Cloudfare's offering. I'm with the sibling comment that it's another external dependency when my goal is to self host more. But that's a tool I'll keep in mind!
I'll have to check out Caddy plugins! One I saw called the docker command to discover exposed ports, meaning it depends on Docker explicitly. I'll see what I can dig up wrt Podman. This sounds very interesting. Thanks!