CloudFlare And Useful Links

Introduction

In this post I would like to summarized the related links of Cloudflare.

General links

Official website

In this site you can check Cloudflare product information (DDoS, WAF, CDN, DNS, Workers, etc.), solutions, inquiries, dashboard account creation, latest updates, etc. Plans can be selected from four plans, including free and paid plans .

• https://www.cloudflare.com/ -> Main page
• https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ -> Cloudflare Plans

Support page

This page, various materials such as installation procedures and DNS setting methods are published by product and error content. One of the features of Cloudflare is that it has a large number of users, so we are increasing the number of documents so that we can set up and troubleshoot in the form of self-service. In addition to articles for technology, support articles related to accounts and billing are also published. The support plan varies depending on the plan you are using, but you can also contact the support team by creating a ticket via dashboard or email.

Cloudflare Help Center

Blog

Check this blog for the latest information and announcements of new product releases. One of the features of Cloudflare is this blog. Many product teams and engineers openly publish product releases, behind-the-scenes features and trends in DDoS attacks, so please subscribe. You can subscribe to the product release by email by entering your email address from What’s New

The Cloudflare Blog

What's New at Cloudflare | Cloudflare

Status page

In this site you check the update of the status page when a failure occurs and the operation status of each Pop. You can also subscribe to RSS Feed, so you can use IFTTT etc. to automatically notify emails, Slack, etc.

Cloudflare Status

Webinars

In this site we can find webinars prepared by Cloudflare

Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare

Settings in Cloudflare

Dashboard

Cloudflare management dashboard. After registering your domain, you can use security, performance and analysis functions such as

• DNS
• SSL certificate
• WAF
• Firewall
• Cache
• Workers
• load balancer
• Analytics
• domain transfer from the dashboard on one dashboard.

You can switch to English or Japanese from the upper right of the dashboard to use it. You can use your account if you have registered your e-mail address.

URL for dashboard: https://dash.cloudflare.com/

Clouflare for Teams

This dashboard is dedicated to zero trust solutions. Access will be able to use a function that replaces VPN, and Gateway will be able to perform Web filtering when connecting to the Internet from the terminal side. Unlike 1.1.1.1 , Gateway allows you to set the security policy you want to filter.

⚠️ This will also be available if you already have an account. This product can be used free of charge by up to 50 users !

URL: https://dash.teams.cloudflare.com/

More info about price: https://www.cloudflare.com/teams-pricing/

API for Cloudflare

Cloudflare API v4 Documentation

If you use Postman, you can efficiently use the API to make settings if you are not good at the command line or if you have trouble entering each time. There is a file that can be imported to Postman from the file linked here, and if you set the account information, you can operate the API on the GUI.

More about this we can find in link below:

Using Cloudflare API with Postman Collections

Terraform/Ansible

If we would like to have our configuration as a code, we have the option of using terraform or ansible that have Cloudflare support

• Terraform

http://registry.terraform.io/providers/cloudflare/cloudflare/latest/docs

• Ansible

Ansible Galaxy

IP ranges for Cloudflare

IP Ranges | Cloudflare

Check also this article for the settings as well.

Allowing Cloudflare IP addresses

DNS service

This is a high-speed DNS service provided by Cloudflare for free, and it does not store access logs, DNS over HTTPS, DNS over SSL, and high speed. It has appeared as a service that enhances security and privacy by supporting VPN.

1.1.1.1 - the Internet's Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver

Cloudflare released the Beta version of Warp for Mac and Windows with the high-speed VPN function “WARP”.

1.1.1.1 - The free app that makes your Internet faster.

After setting the DNS, you can check the judgment result of the setting on the page below.

1.1.1.1 - the Internet's Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver

CloudFlare release one more thing for the general public. 1.1.1.1 for Families. The purpose is to enable safe use of the Internet by blocking adult content and malware at the DNS level.

We have two options:

• Blocking Malware

1.1.1.2
1.0.0.2
2606:4700:4700::1112
2606:4700:4700::1002

• Blocking Malware and Adult Content

1.1.1.3
1.0.0.3
2606:4700:4700::1113
2606:4700:4700::1003

Site for Developers

Site for Developers updates parameter information, setting items and WAF managed rules for each function, and updates resources for technology.

Cloudflare Developers

Cloudflare workers

Workers is a serverless service that allows developers to run JavaScript, Rust, C and C ++ on each edge data centers.

Cloudflare Workers®

Limits · Cloudflare Workers docs

Workers and Workers KV are also available with a free plan. Recently, the Workers community has also opened up, allowing you to interact and give feedback to the Workers team and international users on the Discord channel.

Join the Cloudflare Workers Discord Server!

Documentation for Workers it’s such as sample scripts and tutorials for beginners and advice, and how to configure Workers based on CLI are available.

Examples · Cloudflare Workers docs

Tutorials · Cloudflare Workers docs

Other links

• Github

Cloudflare

• Open source projects

Cloudflare Open Source

• Cloudflare SpeedTest

Internet Speed Test - Measure Latency & Jitter | Cloudflare

Conclusion

I think that this is quite a lot of useful links and information about the services and Cloudflare itself that can be useful during everyday work with this service.