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Automating a no-cost zero-trust RDP solution for Windows Server - Cloudflare in-browser RDP

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 17:50:59 +0300

A small intro

Although my main stack is far from this now, throughout my professional career I have had to work with the Windows Server stack, and the issue of secure RDP access has always been important. One of my favorite customers with Windows Server stack was a medium-size company in the financial sector, who’ve managed their custom software across multiple Windows Server environments, and their go-to solution for secure RDP access was Azure VPN. With all my love for Azure, their VPN (especially cert-based one, which required a lot of management overhead) was not the most user-friendly solution.

Cloudflare R2 registry as an extremely cheap solution for DockerHub rate limits

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

DockerHub rate limits

DockerHub has a strict rate limit policy, especially for anonymous pulls.

for anynomyous users: 100 pulls per 6 hours per IP address.
for authenticated users: 200 pulls per 6 hours per IP address.
=> if your usage exceeds these limits, your requests are denied until the six-hour window elapses.

Despite the fact that for authenticated users the rate limit is higher, these limits can easily break the CI/CD pipelines which use DockerHub as a source of base images, especially if runners aren’t ephemeral and use the same IP address for multiple builds.