Cannot create cloudflare service without TUNNEL-UUID and CREDENTIALS-FILE

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Sometime around 2020 Cloudflare made a change such that you can only create a cloudflare service if you have a tunnel-uuid and credentials-file (created by a tunnel login command). This means that the tunnel would be associated with your Cloudflare account.

As a workaround I did the following. You may like to update the documentation.

Installed cloudflared as per the instructions

Manually created the file /etc/systemd/system/cloudflared.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Argo Tunnel
After=network.target

[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=0
Type=notify
ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/cloudflared update
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/cloudflared tunnel --no-autoupdate --url http://<plex-ip-address>:32400 --metrics localhost:33400
ExecStartPost=/usr/local/bin/plexargod
Environment=RUN_BY_SYSTEMD=1
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Created /etc/cloudflared/config.yml with the following content:

url: http://<plex-ip-address>:32400
metrics: localhost:33400

Then followed the documented setup for the plexargod script.