Show HN: Bridgeflare – Replace Docker with Cloudflare

Hey HN, I have way too many sideprojects so docker images have been eating up most of my RAM, but besides "deploy them" there isn't much I can do during development to cut it down.

So I build Bridgeflare - a drop-in docker replacement that serves the containers on Cloudflare then tunnels them back to you as localhost.

It basically a small daemon that uses the Docker API, so you can just keep using normal docker CLI commands and bridgeflare will do the work underneath:

- Build your image

- Deploy to CF containers

- Setup tunneling across services

- Tunnel them back safely to your machine so you see them as `localhost`

- Small MacOS menu bar to monitor the running containers for ease of use

In a way, it's like the reverse of CF's recently released quick tunnels.

As always, it is early and there are some limits:

- Images need to be amd64 based (CF containers limits)

- No docker exec

- No post-lifecycle persistence