Extra Credit
Cloudflare
Official docs outline
16 sections- Fundamentals and Accounts
Accounts, zones, API tokens, account and zone settings, and how traffic proxies through Cloudflare.
- DNS
Authoritative DNS records, proxied vs DNS-only records, CNAME flattening, DNSSEC, and nameserver setup.
- SSL/TLS
Encryption modes (Flexible, Full, Strict), edge and origin certificates, HSTS, mTLS, and certificate management.
- Cache and CDN
Edge caching, cache rules, TTLs, cache keys, purging, Tiered Cache, and Cache Reserve.
- Rules and Redirects
Rulesets engine, redirect rules, transform rules, URL rewrites, origin rules, and configuration rules.
- WAF
Web application firewall, managed rules, custom rules, rate limiting rules, and security analytics.
- DDoS Protection
Automatic L3/L4 and L7 DDoS mitigation, managed rulesets, and sensitivity tuning.
- Bots and Turnstile
Bot detection and CAPTCHA alternatives with Turnstile widgets and server-side token validation.
- Load Balancing
Pools, origins, health monitors, steering policies, failover, and session affinity.
- Cloudflare Tunnel
Outbound-only connections with cloudflared, tunnel routing, and exposing private services without public IPs.
- Zero Trust Access
Access applications and policies, identity providers, service tokens, and zero trust network access.
- Workers
Serverless compute on the edge, bindings, routes, and the developer platform built around Workers.
- Pages
Git-based static site and full-stack hosting, build configuration, preview deployments, and Functions.
- R2
S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees, buckets, presigned URLs, and public buckets.
- KV and D1
Edge key-value storage with KV and serverless SQLite databases with D1, including consistency and migrations.
- API and Terraform
Managing Cloudflare resources programmatically via the REST API and the Terraform provider.
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