You don't need any of this, and the article is completely bogus, having a port forwarded to a database in a container is not a security vulnerability, unless the database has a vulnerability. The article fails to explain how they actually got remote code execution, and blames it on some docker container vulnerability, and links to a random article as a source that has nothing to do with what he is claiming in the article.
What you have to understand is that having an immich instance on the internet is only a security vulnerability if immich itself has a vulnerability in it. Obviously, this is a big if, so if you want to protect against this scenario, you need to make sure only you can access this instance, and you have a few options here that don't involve 3rd parties like cloudflare. You can make it listen only on the local network, and then use ssh port tunneling, or you can set up a vpn.
Cloudflare has been spamming the internet with "burglars are burgling in the neighbourhood, do you have burglar alarms" articles, youtube is also full of this.
What you have to understand is that having an immich instance on the internet is only a security vulnerability if immich itself has a vulnerability in it. Obviously, this is a big if, so if you want to protect against this scenario, you need to make sure only you can access this instance, and you have a few options here that don't involve 3rd parties like cloudflare. You can make it listen only on the local network, and then use ssh port tunneling, or you can set up a vpn.
Cloudflare has been spamming the internet with "burglars are burgling in the neighbourhood, do you have burglar alarms" articles, youtube is also full of this.