Zero Trust

Series: How I Used Claude Code to Slash My Cloud Bill by 63% Part 1: The $198/Month Wake-Up Call Part 2: Migrating 7 Static Sites to Cloudflare Pages Part 3: Killing the Load Balancer with Cloudflare Tunnel Part 4: Building a Home Router with a Raspberry Pi 5 Part 5: Connecting Everything with Tailscale (you are here) Part 6: The Final Architecture - $74/mo and Zero Regrets The Problem: Private Access Without Public Exposure After the Cloudflare Tunnel work in Part 3, I had one service (n8n) accessible through a tunnel and everything else locked down inside the Kubernetes cluster. But I had other internal services I wanted to reach from my home network – things like SearXNG, Redis Commander, and the Kubernetes dashboard. None of these should be publicly accessible. I don’t want a public endpoint for my search engine or my database admin tool. ...

Series: How I Used Claude Code to Slash My Cloud Bill by 63% Part 1: The $198/Month Wake-Up Call Part 2: Migrating 7 Static Sites to Cloudflare Pages Part 3: Killing the Load Balancer with Cloudflare Tunnel (you are here) Part 4: Building a Home Router with a Raspberry Pi 5 Part 5: Connecting Everything with Tailscale Part 6: The Final Architecture - $74/mo and Zero Regrets What Was Left After the Static Site Migration After moving all static sites to Cloudflare Pages, the only thing left going through the DigitalOcean App Platform and Load Balancer was n8n – my workflow automation tool at automation.shellnetsecurity.com. ...