Comment by kentonv
14 hours ago
What do you mean? This is 100% open source and self-hostable!
https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os
It runs on the open source Workers Runtime:
https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
You can run it at home if you want. There's even a Home Assistant Gatekeeper.
So you can run it off the public internet with no sneaky external dependency on cloudflare, slack etc?
And it would be functionally the same? With the same performance if you put enough hardware there?
If so cool, and that should have been clearly in the announcement, because as it sounded it is “I am a sucker, lock me in!”
> So you can run it off the public internet with no sneaky external dependency on cloudflare, slack etc?
Yes. It even supports ollama and works decently well with some local LLMs.
> And it would be functionally the same? With the same performance if you put enough hardware there?
Honestly it is faster running locally.
> If so cool, and that should have been clearly in the announcement,
We had so many things we wanted to say, it was hard to fit them all into one story.
The blog post is for an enterprise audience. My tweet thread is for the hacker audience.
That is actually cool.
Maybe it is my bubble, but the experience people are having with Anthropic particularly is motivating a big “get this stuff back under control” effort so while it may not be strategically optimal for Cloudflare the local hosting would prove more valuable to enterprises than maybe a few years back, even if presented as a backup plan.
Neat! How does that work with the AI Gateway portion? I see some references in the code but at a quick glance I can't tell if you can configure it to skip AI Gateway.
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You're not alone The name "cloudflare-os" by itself made me think this was heavily based on Cloudflare
Do you have a store/list of public blueprints like sandstorm?
Not yet, but that's an obvious direction to take things. :)
I'm really excited by the idea that this platform makes it safe to use blueprints that someone else vibe coded, without worrying about whether they checked it for security bugs, etc. Basically if the app works, it works. So yeah, there absolutely should be a marketplace so everyone can try everyone else's stuff.
BTW there are three blueprints installed automatically (docs, slides, sheets).
Couldn't the blueprint exfiltrate incoming data to an external location for example?
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I'd say better to not call it Cloudflare in that case
The idea is actually supposed to be that Cloudflare OS is Cloudflare's internal instance, but when you deploy it for your own company, you call it "<your company> OS".
The product name and logo are configurable in the admin settings.
Yeah it's a little cheesy. Sorry.
Thank you for your work over the years, sandstorm is a really interesting and inspiring piece of software. I'll certainly try to self-host CloudflareOS.