Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

Oauth and enterprise auth has to be the worst thing ever made, it might be the most confusing and frustrating part of dealing with the cloud. Even the AI tools took a year to just get basic Oauth working on headless systems without assuming you could open a browser. If they're going to go down the auth rabbit hole with RBAC/IAM/Workload identities?/service accounts and all the trash the big cloud providers have, I just hope to god they leave in the simple shit for personal use. I just want a damn API key, I keep it a secret and revoke if necessary and don't need 10000 layers of auth bullshit tangled up in every layer of every platform.

Not sure whats the play here, there is no world where this can turn out good. Cloudflare is more or less infrastructure provider, this idea of some user delegating permissions to their account to some third party client for infrastructure is ripe for abuses. If companies like AWS are not doing it then its for a good reason.

I thought I understood what Oauth was (a standardized protocol to provide per-client access keys), but this article confuses me.

What's a "self-managed" Oauth here? What is access is being granted to, who are the clients, who are the partners...?

Anyone care to elaborate?

Nice, but as usual if you want a 3-step “getting started” example you have to wade through the docs, and even then…

Classic Cloudflare, for all, works well, not too expensive... but, and consequently of all those positive attributes, positioning itself at the center of everything.

You'd think implementing OAuth2 were splitting the atom the way so many dev teams won't even consider rolling their own or using the multiple well-tested free libraries.

Cloudflare turning into a Cloud platform is undoing what it was really doing well: making small clouds and diy hosting manageable in the hostile web environment.

Once their revenue from Cloud services overtakes their core offering, bye bye Cloudflare free and so on.

Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

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