Migrate prod deploy from Swarm to K3s; add full deployment book
Infrastructure:
- Stack now runs on K3s v1.34.6 HA (3 Hetzner CX33 nodes as managers)
- Traefik DaemonSet + hostNetwork replaces Caddy + ingress mesh
- All manifests in deploy-k3s/manifests/; Swarm config (deploy/) kept
temporarily for reference
Bug fixes surfaced during migration:
- Dockerfile: golang:1.24-alpine -> 1.25-alpine (go.mod requires 1.25)
- cache_service.go: remove sync.Once reassignment from inside Do()
callback (was causing 'unlock of unlocked mutex' fatal after
Redis Ping failure)
- router.go: relax CSP from 'default-src none' to 'default-src self'
+ allowlist fonts.googleapis.com so the marketing landing page CSS
actually loads in browsers
- deploy/scripts/deploy_prod.sh: use docker buildx with
--platform linux/amd64 so arm64 (Apple Silicon) dev machines produce
images runnable on x86_64 Hetzner nodes; fix array expansion under
set -u
- deploy/swarm-stack.prod.yml: fix secret source references to use
top-level aliases (the '\${X_SECRET}' form never actually resolved);
dozzle ports: long-form host_ip is rejected by Swarm, switched to
short-form (bound to 0.0.0.0 with UFW-based loopback restriction);
worker replicas 2 -> 1 (Asynq scheduler singleton)
- deploy-k3s/manifests/admin/deployment.yaml: probe path '/admin/' -> '/'
(Next.js serves at root; /admin/ returned 404 and killed pods);
startupProbe failureThreshold 12 -> 24
- deploy-k3s/manifests/pod-disruption-budgets.yaml: worker minAvailable
1 -> 0 (singleton)
- deploy-k3s/manifests/api/deployment.yaml: startupProbe failureThreshold
12 -> 48 (MigrateWithLock serializes across 3 replicas on first-boot;
real startup takes up to 240s)
- .gitignore: tighten 'api' -> '/api' (was matching deploy-k3s/manifests/api/
and admin/src/app/api/*, hiding legitimate files)
New files:
- deploy-k3s/manifests/traefik-helmchartconfig.yaml: DaemonSet +
hostNetwork override for k3s-bundled Traefik
- deploy-k3s/manifests/ingress/ingress-simple.yaml: plain Ingress
without TLS (CF Flexible SSL) and without middleware
- deploy-k3s/MIGRATION_NOTES.md: operator-facing migration log
Documentation:
- docs/deployment/ — full deployment book, 26 files, ~42k words:
- Part I Overview, infrastructure, orchestrator choice (Ch 0-2)
- Part II Networking, firewall, Cloudflare (Ch 3-4, 13)
- Part III Security, Traefik ingress (Ch 5-6)
- Part IV Services, DB, storage, secrets, registry (Ch 7-11)
- Part V Data flow, deploy process, observability, failures, runbook
(Ch 12, 14-17)
- Part VI Cost, Swarm postmortem, roadmap (Ch 18-20)
- Appendices: glossary, kubectl cheat sheet, file locations,
consolidated citations
- README.md: Production Deployment section replaced with pointer to
the book; Go version bumped to 1.25
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# 13 — Cloudflare
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## Summary
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Cloudflare sits in front of every public request. It provides DNS
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(authoritative nameservers for `myhoneydue.com`), TLS termination at
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the edge, DDoS mitigation, caching, and the round-robin fan-out across
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our three node IPs. We use the Free plan. TLS mode is "Flexible"
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(HTTP between CF and origin). This chapter documents every Cloudflare
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setting that matters.
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## DNS
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### Zone
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`myhoneydue.com`, managed by Cloudflare. Authoritative nameservers:
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```
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carol.ns.cloudflare.com
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ishaan.ns.cloudflare.com
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```
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### Records that matter
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| Type | Name | Content | Proxy | Notes |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| A | `api` | 178.104.247.152 | 🟠 Proxied | hetzner1 |
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| A | `api` | 178.105.32.198 | 🟠 Proxied | hetzner2 |
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| A | `api` | 178.104.249.189 | 🟠 Proxied | hetzner3 |
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| A | `admin` | 178.104.247.152 | 🟠 Proxied | same 3 IPs |
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| A | `admin` | 178.105.32.198 | 🟠 Proxied | |
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| A | `admin` | 178.104.249.189 | 🟠 Proxied | |
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| A | `@` | 178.104.247.152 | 🟠 Proxied | same 3 IPs |
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| A | `@` | 178.105.32.198 | 🟠 Proxied | |
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| A | `@` | 178.104.249.189 | 🟠 Proxied | |
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Three A records per name → Cloudflare selects one per request. With
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proxying on (orange cloud), **the client never sees these IPs** — it
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sees a Cloudflare edge IP. CF internally picks which of the three
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origin IPs to connect to; if one fails the connection, CF retries the
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next.
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**TXT records for email** (Fastmail sending domain): SPF, DKIM, DMARC.
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Not our immediate concern; configured by the Fastmail custom-domain
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setup.
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### Why three A records per name, not one
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With one record pointing at hetzner1:
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- Only hetzner1 sees traffic
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- If hetzner1 is unreachable, everything breaks until we change DNS
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With three records:
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- CF chooses one origin per connection
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- If one node's port :80 stops responding, CF tries the others
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- Node upgrades can be done one at a time with no user impact
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This is poor-man's load balancing. A Hetzner Load Balancer or Cloudflare
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Load Balancer (paid) would be more sophisticated — with active health
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checks and automatic failover on sub-second latency. Our DNS approach
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is "good enough" for the traffic volume.
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### Cloudflare's origin health checks
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On Free plan, CF doesn't actively probe origins. It reacts to real
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connection failures: if an origin returns 5xx repeatedly or connection
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times out, CF marks it unhealthy for that edge POP for some time.
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Upgrading to **Cloudflare Load Balancing** ($5/mo add-on) would enable
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active health checks — explicit probes independent of traffic. Useful
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when you want sub-second failover.
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## TLS
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### Mode: Flexible
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CF Dashboard → SSL/TLS → Overview → **Flexible**.
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**What this means:**
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- User ↔ Cloudflare: **TLS** (HTTPS)
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- Cloudflare ↔ Origin: **plaintext HTTP** (port 80)
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**Why we chose it:**
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- No origin cert required on the Hetzner nodes
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- Zero Traefik cert-management complexity
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- Fine for a site where CF terminates all user-facing TLS
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**Downsides:**
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- An attacker with network access between CF and Hetzner could read
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traffic. Realistically: nobody between CF's POPs and Hetzner's
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Nuremberg DC, but it's theoretically plaintext on the wire.
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- MitM risk if DNS gets hijacked and traffic is routed through an
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unintended origin.
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### Future: Full (strict)
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The next step up is **Full (strict)**: CF verifies origin's TLS cert
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and connects over HTTPS. Cloudflare provides free **Origin CA
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certificates** for this: they're issued by a CF-internal CA that only
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CF's own edge accepts. An attacker without a CF-signed cert can't
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impersonate our origin.
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Path to enable:
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1. Generate Origin CA cert in CF dashboard → SSL/TLS → Origin Server
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2. Download as PEM
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3. Create k8s Secret `cloudflare-origin-cert`:
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```bash
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kubectl create secret tls cloudflare-origin-cert -n honeydue \
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--cert=origin.crt --key=origin.key
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```
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4. Add `tls:` block to our Ingress:
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```yaml
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spec:
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tls:
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- hosts: [api.myhoneydue.com]
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secretName: cloudflare-origin-cert
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```
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5. Switch CF SSL mode to Full (strict)
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Trad-off: the `cloudflare-origin-cert` expires (default 15 years), so
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low maintenance. **TODO** (Chapter 20).
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### Edge certificate
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CF provides a free edge certificate for `*.myhoneydue.com` and
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`myhoneydue.com`. Auto-renewed by Cloudflare. We don't touch it.
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### Always Use HTTPS
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SSL/TLS → Edge Certificates → **Always Use HTTPS: On** (default).
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Redirects any HTTP → HTTPS at the CF edge. Clients that hit
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`http://api.myhoneydue.com/*` get 301'd to `https://...`. Origin never
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sees the HTTP request.
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### HSTS
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**Not currently enabled.** HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) sends
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a header telling browsers "always use HTTPS for this domain." Once set
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with long `max-age`, it's **permanent** until it expires — if we later
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misconfigure TLS, HSTS-enabled browsers refuse to connect at all.
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Enabling HSTS is a TODO but requires confidence in our TLS stability.
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Not tonight.
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## DDoS mitigation
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CF's Free plan includes basic DDoS protection:
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- Volumetric attacks absorbed at the edge
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- Obvious bot patterns blocked (known-bad user agents, headless browsers
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doing suspicious things)
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Under a large attack, CF might:
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- Insert a "checking your browser" JavaScript challenge (the ~5-second
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"Cloudflare is checking your browser" page)
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- Rate-limit by IP
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Under a sustained, sophisticated attack we might need:
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- CF Pro plan ($20/mo) for more rule customization
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- Enterprise plan for negotiated protection
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- Extra measures like Cloudflare Magic Transit
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So far, not needed.
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## Caching
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Default CF caching:
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- Static assets (CSS, JS, images) cached aggressively based on extension
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- HTML pages honored per `Cache-Control` headers from origin
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- JSON API responses typically not cached (no `Cache-Control: public`)
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Our Go API doesn't set `Cache-Control: public` on any endpoint, so CF
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treats them as uncacheable. Every API call reaches origin.
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If we wanted to cache certain endpoints (e.g., public lookup tables):
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```go
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c.Response().Header().Set("Cache-Control", "public, max-age=300")
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```
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And CF will cache for 5 minutes.
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## Firewall rules at CF
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CF Dashboard → Security → WAF. On Free tier:
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- Managed rules: a small free allowlist of "obvious-attack" patterns
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- Custom rules: limited (5 on Free, 20 on Pro)
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We have **no custom rules defined** currently. The managed ruleset
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covers:
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- SQL injection attempts in query strings
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- Known-vulnerable bot User-Agents
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- XSS attempts in common parameters
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## Rate limiting
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CF Free: **10,000 requests per 10 minutes per IP for free rules** (we
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haven't configured any). The API itself should have rate limits for
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sensitive endpoints; we don't rely on CF for that.
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## What CF does NOT do for us
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- **Authenticate users** — our app does
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- **Authorize requests** — our app does
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- **Encrypt pod-to-pod traffic** — nothing Cloudflare can help with
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- **Backup origin data** — CF caches but doesn't store copies
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persistently
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## Turnstile / bot management
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Not enabled. If we start seeing account-creation spam, Cloudflare
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Turnstile (free) would be a good addition — a CAPTCHA replacement that
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doesn't require user interaction for most traffic.
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## Origin IP protection
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CF proxying (orange cloud) is the primary protection of our origin IPs.
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When proxying is on:
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- DNS queries return CF edge IPs, never origin
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- HTTP/HTTPS traffic goes through CF
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However, our origin IPs **can leak** via:
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- Email sending (if the app ever sent email directly from the origin IP)
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— we use Fastmail so this isn't an issue
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- Outbound connections (our pods connect out to Neon, B2, Fastmail from
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the nodes' public IPs; those IPs appear in external logs)
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- Historical DNS records (services like SecurityTrails log historical
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DNS; if we ever had unproxied A records, attackers can look them up)
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**If origin IPs leak**, attackers can bypass CF's protection by
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connecting directly to node IPs. Current mitigation:
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- UFW only allows :80/:443 from anywhere
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- Our app has no ports bound to the public IP
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**Future** (Chapter 20): UFW rule to allow :80/:443 only from CF IP
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ranges. Prevents direct-connect bypass entirely.
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## Cloudflare IP ranges (used in Traefik trustedIPs)
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From [cloudflare.com/ips](https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/):
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IPv4 ranges:
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```
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173.245.48.0/20
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103.21.244.0/22
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103.22.200.0/22
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103.31.4.0/22
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141.101.64.0/18
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108.162.192.0/18
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190.93.240.0/20
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188.114.96.0/20
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197.234.240.0/22
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198.41.128.0/17
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162.158.0.0/15
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104.16.0.0/13
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104.24.0.0/14
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172.64.0.0/13
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131.0.72.0/22
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```
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IPv6 ranges:
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```
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2400:cb00::/32
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2606:4700::/32
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2803:f800::/32
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2405:b500::/32
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2405:8100::/32
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2a06:98c0::/29
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2c0f:f248::/32
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```
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These are used in two places:
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1. **Traefik `forwardedHeaders.trustedIPs`** — we already have this
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configured (Chapter 6)
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2. **UFW `allow 80/tcp from <cf-range>`** — NOT configured (TODO)
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CF occasionally adds new ranges. If a future CF range isn't in our
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list, we'd either trust unknown IPs (if lax) or reject legitimate CF
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traffic (if strict). The canonical source is the public API:
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```bash
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curl -sS https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4
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curl -sS https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v6
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```
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## API token for programmatic changes
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If we automate DNS changes (e.g., adding new subdomain on deploy),
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we'd need a CF API token with `Zone:DNS:Edit` scope for the
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`myhoneydue.com` zone.
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Currently not automated; DNS is managed in the CF dashboard by hand.
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## Cost
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**$0/mo**. Free plan covers everything we use. Paid plans add features
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we don't need yet:
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| Feature | Free | Pro ($20) | Business ($200) |
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| DNS + proxying | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Basic DDoS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| SSL (edge + Flexible + Full + Full strict) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| WAF managed rules | ✓ (limited) | ✓ (more) | ✓ (all) |
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| Custom firewall rules | 5 | 20 | 100 |
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| Page Rules | 3 | 20 | 50 |
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| Image Resizing | no | no | ✓ |
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| Load Balancing | no | $5/mo add-on | ✓ |
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We'd consider Pro ($20/mo) if:
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- We needed a custom WAF rule beyond the 5-rule limit
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- We wanted Image Resizing for user-uploaded photos
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Neither is needed today.
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## Operator cheat sheet
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```bash
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# Query current CF-served DNS
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dig +short @1.1.1.1 api.myhoneydue.com # returns CF edge IPs when proxied
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# Query our origin directly (bypass CF)
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curl -sS -H "Host: api.myhoneydue.com" http://178.104.247.152/api/health/
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# Check CF headers (confirm you're going through CF)
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curl -sS -I https://api.myhoneydue.com/api/health/ | grep -i cf-
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# Purge CF cache (requires API token)
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curl -X POST \
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-H "Authorization: Bearer $CF_TOKEN" \
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-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
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"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/<zone_id>/purge_cache" \
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-d '{"purge_everything":true}'
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```
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## References
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- [Cloudflare IP ranges][cf-ips]
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- [Cloudflare SSL modes explained][cf-ssl]
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- [Origin CA certificates][cf-origin-ca]
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- [Cloudflare DNS best practices][cf-dns]
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[cf-ips]: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
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[cf-ssl]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/ssl-modes/
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[cf-origin-ca]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/origin-ca/
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[cf-dns]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/
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