tfarm

tfarm is a tool for creating and managing tunnels. It is a wrapper around frp that provides a simple interface for managing tunnels. It consists of two components: a server and a client. The server is a wrapper around frpc that manages tunnels. The client is a CLI for interfacing with the server to create and manage tunnels.

Installation

If you are using go version 1.17 or later, you can install frpc and tfarm using the go install command.

go install github.com/fatedier/frp/cmd/frpc@latest
go install github.com/cbodonnell/tfarm/cmd/tfarm@latest

If you are using an older version of go, you can install tfarm using go get.

Otherwise, you can:

1. Download the latest release of frp and tfarm for your platform.
2. Extract the binaries from the archives.
3. Move the binaries to a directory in your PATH.

Usage

Setup the tfarm server

Note: It is recommended to run the tfarm server using a process manager like systemd (example).

Configuration

The following environment variables can optionally be used to configure the tfarm server.

Set the TFARMD_WORK_DIR environment variable to the path where you want to store the tfarm server state. By default, it will be the current working directory.

export TFARMD_WORK_DIR=/path/to/work/dir

Set the TFARMD_FRPC_BIN_PATH environment variable to the path of the frpc binary. By default, tfarm will search the current users PATH.

export TFARMD_FRPC_BIN_PATH=/path/to/frpc

Start the tfarm server process

Start the tfarmd server.

tfarm server start

In another terminal, create the $HOME/.tfarm directory and copy the server's client.json file to it.

mkdir -p $HOME/.tfarm
cp $TFARMD_WORK_DIR/tls/client.json $HOME/.tfarm

Check the status of the tfarm server.

tfarm status

The next step is to configure the tfarm server as a ranch client.

Configure the tfarm server as a ranch client

Use the tfarm ranch command to interact with the tfarm ranch. The tfarm ranch is the frps server that frpc connects to. It provides an identity and access layer for frps. By default, tfarm will connect to the tunnel.farm ranch.

Login to the tfarm ranch.

tfarm ranch login

Create a new ranch client and use it to configure the tfarm server.

tfarm ranch clients create --credentials | tfarm configure --credentials-stdin

Manage tunnels with the tfarm CLI

Check the status of the tfarm server.

tfarm status

Create a tunnel that forwards traffic to local port 8080.

tfarm create my-tunnel -p 8080

Check the status.

tfarm status

Delete the tunnel.

tfarm delete my-tunnel

Development

Dependencies

• Git
• Make
• Go
• Docker
• frpc

Configuration

Create a .env file with the following environment variables.

TFARMD_FRPC_BIN_PATH=/path/to/frpc
TFARMD_WORK_DIR=/path/to/work/dir
TFARMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug

Build

make tfarm