Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
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📖What it means
The outbound connection that lets the public reach the machine without the machine exposing a door to the internet. Traffic comes in through the tunnel's edge, which is also where the certificate lives.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Route
The tunnel brings traffic to the machine; a route decides which app it lands on.
Not: Port
The tunnel is how the outside reaches in; a port is purely local.
🗣️Also called
cloudflare tunnelreverse tunnelingress