Introducing Cloudflare Warp: Hide Behind The Edge

Cloudflare has introduced a new security-conscious tool called Warp, which allows web applications to be exposed without needing to expose the server they run on. With Warp, traffic to an application is run over a private, encrypted, virtual tunnel from the Cloudflare edge, and traffic can only find and access the server if it routes through Cloudflare. This setup makes Cloudflare's edge act as a network shield in front of infrastructure, allowing policies to be described at the edge and unexpected traffic to be dropped before reaching servers. Warp also offers service discovery benefits by registering DNS records for applications when the agent is spun up. The beta version of Cloudflare Warp is available today.