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:

​​ 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