Cloudflare Stack

Lesson series · 10 stops · edge → origin

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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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  1. 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. EDGE 8 min
  2. 02 Getting a domain Where domains actually come from, how registrars differ, what the price tag is hiding, and how Cloudflare Registrar fits in. REGISTRAR 10 min
  3. 03 Putting your domain on Cloudflare The onboarding flow, the nameserver change, what propagation actually is, and the shape of the dashboard. NAMESERVERS 10 min
  4. 04 DNS, the part you'll touch daily Record types, the orange cloud, CNAME flattening, and the configs that catch people out. DNS 12 min
  5. 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. PAGES 12 min
  6. 06 Workers: code at the edge JavaScript that runs at the proxy on every request. The programming model, the toolchain, and what they replace. WORKERS 14 min
  7. 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. KV·R2·D1 12 min
  8. 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. ACCESS 12 min
  9. 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. API 10 min
  10. 10 Caching, WAF, and Bot Fight Cache Rules, the WAF rulesets, Bot Fight Mode, and the gotchas that turn safety features into outages. WAF·CACHE 14 min

Cloudflare Stack

Learn how sites reach the internet: domains, DNS, Workers, storage, caching, and the traps that break them.

Cloudflare Stack is a ten-lesson series walking through the Cloudflare products you touch when shipping a small site: DNS, Pages, Workers, KV/R2/D1, and the caching and security layers in front of them. Each lesson is roughly ten minutes, ordered edge to origin, written from the builder's seat with the gotchas hit while shipping too.foo.

The chrome borrows the request-path mental model the lessons teach. A vertical route line marks the TOC with one dot per stop, lesson pages wear a packet-header eyebrow like `LSN 01/10 ▸ EDGE · 8 MIN · TIER FREE`, and progress is tracked in localStorage, marking a lesson done once you scroll near the bottom. A Resume banner surfaces the next stop on return.