Cloudflare Deploy

Consolidated skill for building on the Cloudflare platform. Use decision trees below to find the right product, then load detailed references.

Prerequisites

• When sandboxing blocks the deployment network calls, rerun with

  sandbox_permissions=require_escalated

  .
• The deployment might take a few minutes. Use appropriate timeout values.

Authentication (Required Before Deploy)

Verify auth before

wrangler deploy

wrangler pages deploy

npm run deploy

npx wrangler whoami    # Shows account if authenticated

Not authenticated? →

references/wrangler/auth.md

• Interactive/local:

  wrangler login

  (one-time OAuth)
• CI/CD: Set

  CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN

  env var

Quick Decision Trees

"I need to run code"

Need to run code?
├─ Serverless functions at the edge → workers/
├─ Full-stack web app with Git deploys → pages/
├─ Stateful coordination/real-time → durable-objects/
├─ Long-running multi-step jobs → workflows/
├─ Run containers → containers/
├─ Multi-tenant (customers deploy code) → workers-for-platforms/
├─ Scheduled tasks (cron) → cron-triggers/
├─ Lightweight edge logic (modify HTTP) → snippets/
├─ Process Worker execution events (logs/observability) → tail-workers/
└─ Optimize latency to backend infrastructure → smart-placement/

"I need to store data"

Need storage?
├─ Key-value (config, sessions, cache) → kv/
├─ Relational SQL → d1/ (SQLite) or hyperdrive/ (existing Postgres/MySQL)
├─ Object/file storage (S3-compatible) → r2/
├─ Message queue (async processing) → queues/
├─ Vector embeddings (AI/semantic search) → vectorize/
├─ Strongly-consistent per-entity state → durable-objects/ (DO storage)
├─ Secrets management → secrets-store/
├─ Streaming ETL to R2 → pipelines/
└─ Persistent cache (long-term retention) → cache-reserve/

"I need AI/ML"

Need AI?
├─ Run inference (LLMs, embeddings, images) → workers-ai/
├─ Vector database for RAG/search → vectorize/
├─ Build stateful AI agents → agents-sdk/
├─ Gateway for any AI provider (caching, routing) → ai-gateway/
└─ AI-powered search widget → ai-search/

"I need networking/connectivity"

Need networking?
├─ Expose local service to internet → tunnel/
├─ TCP/UDP proxy (non-HTTP) → spectrum/
├─ WebRTC TURN server → turn/
├─ Private network connectivity → network-interconnect/
├─ Optimize routing → argo-smart-routing/
├─ Optimize latency to backend (not user) → smart-placement/
└─ Real-time video/audio → realtimekit/ or realtime-sfu/

"I need security"

Need security?
├─ Web Application Firewall → waf/
├─ DDoS protection → ddos/
├─ Bot detection/management → bot-management/
├─ API protection → api-shield/
├─ CAPTCHA alternative → turnstile/
└─ Credential leak detection → waf/ (managed ruleset)

"I need media/content"

Need media?
├─ Image optimization/transformation → images/
├─ Video streaming/encoding → stream/
├─ Browser automation/screenshots → browser-rendering/
└─ Third-party script management → zaraz/

"I need infrastructure-as-code"

Need IaC? → pulumi/ (Pulumi), terraform/ (Terraform), or api/ (REST API)

Product Index

Compute & Runtime

references/workers/

references/pages/

references/pages-functions/

references/durable-objects/

references/workflows/

references/containers/

references/workers-for-platforms/

references/cron-triggers/

references/tail-workers/

references/snippets/

references/smart-placement/

Storage & Data

references/kv/

references/d1/

references/r2/

references/queues/

references/hyperdrive/

references/do-storage/

references/secrets-store/

references/pipelines/

references/r2-data-catalog/

references/r2-sql/

AI & Machine Learning

references/workers-ai/

references/vectorize/

references/agents-sdk/

references/ai-gateway/

references/ai-search/

Networking & Connectivity

references/tunnel/

references/spectrum/

references/turn/

references/network-interconnect/

references/argo-smart-routing/

references/workers-vpc/

Security

references/waf/

references/ddos/

references/bot-management/

references/api-shield/

references/turnstile/

Media & Content

references/images/

references/stream/

references/browser-rendering/

references/zaraz/

Real-Time Communication

references/realtimekit/

references/realtime-sfu/

Developer Tools

references/wrangler/

references/miniflare/

references/c3/

references/observability/

references/analytics-engine/

references/web-analytics/

references/sandbox/

references/workerd/

references/workers-playground/

Infrastructure as Code

references/pulumi/

references/terraform/

references/api/

Other Services

references/email-routing/

references/email-workers/

references/static-assets/

references/bindings/

references/cache-reserve/

Troubleshooting

Escalated Network Access

If deployment fails due to network issues (timeouts, DNS errors, connection resets), rerun the deploy with escalated permissions (use

sandbox_permissions=require_escalated

Example guidance to the user:

The deploy needs escalated network access to deploy to Cloudflare. I can rerun the command with escalated permissions—want me to proceed?