cloudflared — EdgeOS & Multi-Arch Fork

🔄 Auto-synced fork of cloudflare/cloudflared with additional builds for UniFi EdgeOS routers and other MIPS devices.

What is this?

This repository is a fork of the official cloudflare/cloudflared Cloudflare Tunnel client. It adds:

• Automated upstream sync — A CI/CD pipeline checks for new upstream releases every 6 hours and automatically builds & publishes them here
• MIPS architecture support — Pre-built binaries and .deb packages for UniFi EdgeOS devices that are not available in the official releases
• Multi-architecture releases — Every release includes 9 platform/arch combinations plus .deb packages

Supported Architectures

Platform	Architecture	Binary	.deb	Devices
Linux	amd64	✅	✅	Standard x86_64 servers
Linux	arm64	✅	✅	Raspberry Pi 3/4/5, AWS Graviton
Linux	armhf (ARMv7)	✅	✅	Raspberry Pi 2, 32-bit ARM
Linux	arm (ARMv5)	✅	—	Older ARM devices
Linux	386	✅	—	32-bit x86
Linux	mipsle	✅	✅	EdgeRouter X / ER-X-SFP (MT7621)
Linux	mips64	✅	✅	EdgeRouter Lite / ER-4 / ER-6P / ER-12 (Cavium Octeon)
macOS	amd64	✅	—	Intel Mac
macOS	arm64	✅	—	Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)

Quick Install — EdgeOS

EdgeRouter X / ER-X-SFP (MIPS little-endian)

# Download and install the latest release
LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cafe-x-technologies/cloudflared/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f4)
curl -L -o /tmp/cloudflared.deb "https://github.com/cafe-x-technologies/cloudflared/releases/download/${LATEST}/cloudflared_${LATEST}_mipsel.deb"
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/cloudflared.deb

# Verify installation
cloudflared --version

EdgeRouter Lite / ER-4 / ER-6P / ER-12 (MIPS64 big-endian)

# Download and install the latest release
LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cafe-x-technologies/cloudflared/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f4)
curl -L -o /tmp/cloudflared.deb "https://github.com/cafe-x-technologies/cloudflared/releases/download/${LATEST}/cloudflared_${LATEST}_mips64.deb"
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/cloudflared.deb

# Verify installation
cloudflared --version

Manual binary install (any architecture)

# Example for mipsle (EdgeRouter X)
LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cafe-x-technologies/cloudflared/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f4)
curl -L -o /tmp/cloudflared "https://github.com/cafe-x-technologies/cloudflared/releases/download/${LATEST}/cloudflared-linux-mipsle"
chmod +x /tmp/cloudflared
sudo mv /tmp/cloudflared /usr/local/bin/cloudflared

Quick Install — Other platforms

For standard platforms (amd64, arm64, macOS), you can use the official Cloudflare installation methods or download binaries from our Releases page.

See the official cloudflared documentation for more installation options.

How the Sync Works

┌──────────────────────────┐
│  cloudflare/cloudflared   │  Upstream (official)
│  New release tagged       │
└────────────┬─────────────┘
             │  ⏰ Checked every 6 hours
             ▼
┌──────────────────────────┐
│  sync-upstream-release    │  GitHub Actions workflow
│  .yml                     │
├───────────────────────────┤
│ 1. Detect new release tag │
│ 2. Build 9 arch binaries  │
│ 3. Package 5 .deb files   │
│ 4. Create GitHub Release  │
└────────────┬──────────────┘
             ▼
┌──────────────────────────┐
│  cafe-x-technologies/     │  This fork
│  cloudflared/releases     │  With MIPS + all platforms
└───────────────────────────┘

The workflow can also be manually triggered from the Actions tab with options to:

• Specify a particular upstream tag to sync
• Force re-release an existing tag

Running cloudflared as a Service on EdgeOS

After installing, you can set up cloudflared as a tunnel service:

# Authenticate (follow the URL that appears)
cloudflared tunnel login

# Create a tunnel
cloudflared tunnel create my-tunnel

# Configure your tunnel (edit the config file)
sudo mkdir -p /etc/cloudflared
sudo cat > /etc/cloudflared/config.yml << 'EOF'
tunnel: <YOUR-TUNNEL-ID>
credentials-file: /root/.cloudflared/<YOUR-TUNNEL-ID>.json

ingress:
  - hostname: myapp.example.com
    service: http://localhost:8080
  - service: http_status:404
EOF

# Run the tunnel
cloudflared tunnel run my-tunnel

To run on boot, create a systemd service or add to EdgeOS task-scheduler.

Development

This fork tracks upstream and adds MIPS architecture support to the Makefile.

Cross-compile for EdgeOS

# EdgeRouter X (mipsle, softfloat)
make cloudflared TARGET_OS=linux TARGET_ARCH=mipsle TARGET_MIPS=softfloat

# EdgeRouter Lite/4/6P/12 (mips64)
make cloudflared TARGET_OS=linux TARGET_ARCH=mips64

# Build .deb package
make cloudflared-deb TARGET_OS=linux TARGET_ARCH=mipsle TARGET_MIPS=softfloat

Build & test (standard)

make cloudflared   # Build for current platform
make test          # Run tests
make lint          # Run linters

For full development documentation, see the upstream README.

Upstream Project

This is a fork of cloudflare/cloudflared — the official Cloudflare Tunnel client.

• 📖 Cloudflare Tunnel Documentation
• 📦 Official Releases
• 🐳 Docker Image

License

Same as upstream — Apache License 2.0