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title: Connect your private applications
description: Secure browser-based access without device clients.
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# Connect your private applications

Cloudflare Tunnel allows you to securely connect your applications to Cloudflare without a publicly routable IP address. With Tunnel, you do not send traffic to an external IP — instead, a lightweight daemon in your infrastructure (`cloudflared`) creates outbound-only connections to Cloudflare's global network.

## Objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

* Create a Cloudflare Tunnel.
* Publish your application via a public hostname.

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