Workers VPC can now reach Cloudflare WAN destinations
Workers can now use VPC Network bindings with network_id "cf1:network" to reach private networks including Cloudflare Mesh nodes, Tunnel routes, and WAN on-ramp destinations (GRE, IPsec, CNI) from a single unified binding.
You can now use VPC Network bindings with network_id: "cf1:network" to reach your full private network from Workers, including:
- Cloudflare Mesh nodes and client devices
- Subnet routes and hostname routes announced through Cloudflare Tunnel or Cloudflare Mesh
- Destinations connected through Cloudflare WAN on-ramps — GRE, IPsec, and CNI
This means a single VPC Network binding can route Worker requests to private services regardless of how those services are connected to Cloudflare: through a Cloudflare Tunnel from a cloud VPC, a Mesh node on a private subnet, or a Cloudflare WAN on-ramp from your data center or branch site.
{
"vpc_networks": [
{
"binding": "PRIVATE_NETWORK",
"network_id": "cf1:network",
"remote": true,
},
],
}[[vpc_networks]]
binding = "PRIVATE_NETWORK"
network_id = "cf1:network"
remote = true
At runtime, the URL you pass to fetch() determines the destination:
// Reach a service behind a Cloudflare WAN IPsec on-ramp
const response = await env.PRIVATE_NETWORK.fetch("http://10.50.0.100:8080/api");
Note
For destinations behind Cloudflare WAN on-ramps (GRE, IPsec, or CNI), your network must route the Cloudflare source IP range back through the on-ramp so reply traffic returns to Cloudflare. Without this route, stateful flows will fail. This is part of standard Cloudflare WAN onboarding.
For configuration options, refer to VPC Networks.
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