Downloads

Cloudflare Tunnel requires the installation of a lightweight server-side daemon, cloudflared, to connect your infrastructure to Cloudflare. cloudflared is an open source project Open external link maintained by Cloudflare.

Releases can be found on GitHub Open external link . Downloads are available as standalone binaries or packages like Debian and RPM.

Detailed release notes can be found on the GitHub RELEASE_NOTES file Open external link .

​​ Linux

Download and install cloudflared via the Cloudflare Package Repository Open external link .

Alternatively, download the latest release directly.

​​ macOS

Download and install cloudflared via Homebrew:

$ brew install cloudflare/cloudflare/cloudflared

Alternatively, download the latest Darwin amd64 release directly Open external link .

​​ Windows

​​ Docker

A Docker image of cloudflared is available on DockerHub Open external link .

​​ Update cloudflared

You can update cloudflared by running the following command.

cloudflared update

The update will cause cloudflared to restart which would impact traffic currently being served. You can perform zero-downtime upgrades by using Cloudflare’s Load Balancer product or by using multiple cloudflared instances.

​​ Updating with Cloudflare Load Balancer

You can update cloudflared without downtime by using Cloudflare’s Load Balancer product with your Cloudflare Tunnel deployment.

1. Install a new instance of cloudflared and create a new Tunnel.
2. Configure the instance to point traffic to the same locally-available service as your current, active instance of cloudflared.
3. Add the address of the new instance of cloudflared into your Load Balancer pool as priority 2.
4. Swap the priority such that the new instance is now priority 1 and monitor to confirm traffic is being served.
5. Once confirmed, you can remove the older version from the Load Balancer pool.

​​ Updating with multiple cloudflared instances

If you are not using Cloudflare’s Load Balancer, you can use multiple instances of cloudflared to update without the risk of downtime.

1. Install a new instance of cloudflared and create a new Tunnel.
2. Configure the instance to point traffic to the same locally-available service as your current, active instance of cloudflared.
3. In the Cloudflare DNS dashboard, replace the address of the current instance of cloudflared with the address of the new instance. Save the record.
4. Remove the now-inactive instance of cloudflared.

​​ Running multiple instances in Windows

Windows systems require services to have a unique name and display name. You can run multiple instances of cloudflared by creating cloudflared services with unique names.

First, install and configure cloudflared. Next, create a service with a unique name and point to the cloudflared executable and configuration file.

sc.exe create <unique-name> binPath='<path-to-exe>' --config '<path-to-config>' displayname="Unique Name"

Proceed to create additional services with unique names. You can now start each unique service.

sc.exe start <unique-name>

​​ Deprecated versions

Cloudflare currently supports versions of cloudflared 2020.5.1 and later. Breaking changes unrelated to feature availability may be introduced that will impact versions released prior to 2020.5.1. You can read more about upgrading cloudflared in our developer documentation.