Migrating This Blog's Deploy Pipeline to Cloudflare's New cf CLI

Cloudflare just launched cf, a new command-line interface meant to eventually replace Wrangler as the front door to Cloudflare’s platform. This blog’s deploy pipeline has run on plain Wrangler since day one, so it made a good test subject. This post covers what cf actually is, how the migration went, and where it genuinely behaves differently from Wrangler — with real output, not marketing copy. What cf is Wrangler covers roughly 280 commands, almost all of them Workers-related. cf is generated straight from Cloudflare’s public OpenAPI schema and covers the entire product surface — something like 3,000 operations across DNS, R2, D1, Zero Trust, AI Gateway, Access, Queues, Load Balancers, and everything else in the dashboard. One binary instead of “Wrangler for Workers, dashboard clicks for everything else.” ...

September 28, 2026 · 6 min · hicke