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Moley: The Tool That Makes Cloudflare Tunnels Finally Usable (and Why We Needed It)

Moley: The Tool That Makes Cloudflare Tunnels Finally Usable (and Why We Needed It)

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The Problem We All Have (But Solve Poorly)

As a DevOps Manager, I spend more time than I should configuring ways for the team to show their development work. Client demos, webhooks for testing, temporary APIs for integrations… we always need to expose localhost to the world.

Traditional options are a pain:

  • ngrok: Works, but ugly URLs, limits on free plan, and every restart generates a new URL
  • localtunnel: Unstable, URLs that expire, and often blocked by corporate firewalls
  • SSH tunneling: Requires your own servers, manual configuration, and networking knowledge
  • Manual Cloudflare Tunnels: Powerful but… God, the manual configuration is hellish

And then I discovered Moley.

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