Lesson series · 10 stops · edge → origin
cloudflare
A short walkthrough of Cloudflare from a builder's seat: the mental model, the products you'll actually touch, and the gotchas that bit us building too.foo.
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- 01 What Cloudflare actually is The mental model: a global proxy that sits in front of everything you put on the internet, with a pile of optional products that plug into that position.
- 02 Getting a domain Where domains actually come from, how registrars differ, what the price tag is hiding, and how Cloudflare Registrar fits in.
- 03 Putting your domain on Cloudflare The onboarding flow, the nameserver change, what propagation actually is, and the shape of the dashboard.
- 04 DNS, the part you'll touch daily Record types, the orange cloud, CNAME flattening, and the configs that catch people out.
- 05 Pages: hosting your first site Connect a Git repo, get a built static site at the edge, attach a custom domain. The path-of-least-resistance hosting on Cloudflare.
- 06 Workers: code at the edge JavaScript that runs at the proxy on every request. The programming model, the toolchain, and what they replace.
- 07 Storage: KV, R2, D1, and Durable Objects Picking the right storage primitive for an edge app: key-value, object storage, relational, or single-tenant stateful.
- 08 Access and Zero Trust: putting a login in front of things How Cloudflare Access challenges visitors at the edge, the identity providers it speaks, and where Tunnel and WARP fit in.
- 09 API tokens and automation How to give scripts and CI access to Cloudflare without handing over your account, and the difference between the legacy Global API Key and modern API tokens.
- 10 Caching, WAF, and Bot Fight Cache Rules, the WAF rulesets, Bot Fight Mode, and the gotchas that turn safety features into outages.