Run as a service on Linux
You can install cloudflared as a system service on Linux. Before you install Cloudflare Tunnel as a service, follow the
Tunnel guide
to install cloudflared on your machine, create a tunnel, route traffic to your tunnel, and then run it.
Configuring cloudflared as a service
By default, Cloudflare Tunnel expects all of the configuration to exist in the $HOME/.cloudflared/config.yml
configuration file
. The available options are documented on the
configuration file reference
, but at a minimum you must specify the following arguments to run as a service:
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
tunnel |
The UUID of your Tunnel |
credentials-file |
The location of the credentials file for your Tunnel |
Running cloudflared as a service
Open a terminal window and run the following command to install the latest version of cloudflared:
$ wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/download/latest/cloudflared-linux-amd64
mv ./cloudflared-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/cloudflared
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/cloudflared
cloudflared update
Next, run the following three commands to run cloudflared as a service:
$ cloudflared service install
$ systemctl start cloudflared
$ systemctl status cloudflared