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Your app’s front door: API gateway, K8s ingress, DDoS protection, and global load balancing as a service.
Service status available at http://status.ngrok.com.
Service status available at http://status.ngrok.com.
If your secrets live on a platform like HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Google Secret Manager, you may want to sync them into ngrok Vaults via the External Secrets Operator so your Traffic Policies reference a single, rotated source of truth. 🔑
🔗 Check: ngrok.com/blog/kuberne...
🔗 Check: ngrok.com/blog/kuberne...
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If your secrets live on a platform like HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Google Secret Manager, you may want to sync them into ngrok Vaults via the External Secrets Operator so your Traffic Policies reference a single, rotated source of truth. 🔑
🔗 Check: ngrok.com/blog/kuberne...
🔗 Check: ngrok.com/blog/kuberne...
Last week’s AWS outage took down half the internet. ngrok stayed up, and a bunch of people asked "HOW?" 🤔
Our Senior Customer Engineer, Peter Yoakum, covers just that in the latest on our blog. 🕸️
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/dont-us...
Our Senior Customer Engineer, Peter Yoakum, covers just that in the latest on our blog. 🕸️
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/dont-us...
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Last week’s AWS outage took down half the internet. ngrok stayed up, and a bunch of people asked "HOW?" 🤔
Our Senior Customer Engineer, Peter Yoakum, covers just that in the latest on our blog. 🕸️
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/dont-us...
Our Senior Customer Engineer, Peter Yoakum, covers just that in the latest on our blog. 🕸️
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/dont-us...
“The AI gold rush has led to a very modern problem: too many shovels, too little gold.”
AI gateways are how teams keep their models, costs, and chaos under control. 💸
Here’s a guide on how they work and whether you actually need one...
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/ai-gate...
AI gateways are how teams keep their models, costs, and chaos under control. 💸
Here’s a guide on how they work and whether you actually need one...
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/ai-gate...
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“The AI gold rush has led to a very modern problem: too many shovels, too little gold.”
AI gateways are how teams keep their models, costs, and chaos under control. 💸
Here’s a guide on how they work and whether you actually need one...
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/ai-gate...
AI gateways are how teams keep their models, costs, and chaos under control. 💸
Here’s a guide on how they work and whether you actually need one...
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/ai-gate...
Start from scratch or skip straight to simple. 💯
In this blog post, @samwho.dev helps you build up the moving parts of self-hosting your app first, then shows how ngrok makes it all effortless.
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
In this blog post, @samwho.dev helps you build up the moving parts of self-hosting your app first, then shows how ngrok makes it all effortless.
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Start from scratch or skip straight to simple. 💯
In this blog post, @samwho.dev helps you build up the moving parts of self-hosting your app first, then shows how ngrok makes it all effortless.
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
In this blog post, @samwho.dev helps you build up the moving parts of self-hosting your app first, then shows how ngrok makes it all effortless.
🔗 Read here: ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
Spin up n8n, Ollama, and ngrok in Docker Desktop and self‑host your AI workflows, sharing them securely, and skipping all the networking headaches. Very shrimple. 🦐
Here’s your guide to building local AI automations that actually scale!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
Here’s your guide to building local AI automations that actually scale!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Spin up n8n, Ollama, and ngrok in Docker Desktop and self‑host your AI workflows, sharing them securely, and skipping all the networking headaches. Very shrimple. 🦐
Here’s your guide to building local AI automations that actually scale!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
Here’s your guide to building local AI automations that actually scale!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...
Rinsed is building real-time data pipelines for car washes, the ones with backroom servers running Windows XP, locked-down networks, & operators who’ve never heard of port forwarding. 🤯
Read how they meet the network exactly where it is and how ngrok helps them do it! 🧼
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/rinsed-...
Read how they meet the network exactly where it is and how ngrok helps them do it! 🧼
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/rinsed-...
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Rinsed is building real-time data pipelines for car washes, the ones with backroom servers running Windows XP, locked-down networks, & operators who’ve never heard of port forwarding. 🤯
Read how they meet the network exactly where it is and how ngrok helps them do it! 🧼
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/rinsed-...
Read how they meet the network exactly where it is and how ngrok helps them do it! 🧼
🔗 ngrok.com/blog/rinsed-...
We'll put our dogfood where our blog is; built, powered and served proudly by ngrok itself.
Take a peek at our glow up 👇
🔗 ngrok.com/blog
Take a peek at our glow up 👇
🔗 ngrok.com/blog
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We'll put our dogfood where our blog is; built, powered and served proudly by ngrok itself.
Take a peek at our glow up 👇
🔗 ngrok.com/blog
Take a peek at our glow up 👇
🔗 ngrok.com/blog
AI Agents hallucinate, leak PII, ignore instructions, and break in weird ways all the time. So how do you trust them before shoving to production? 🤔
We tested an AI agent with Vijil AI and ngrok and what we learned about agent failure (& trust) surprised us.
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ai...
We tested an AI agent with Vijil AI and ngrok and what we learned about agent failure (& trust) surprised us.
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ai...
September 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
AI Agents hallucinate, leak PII, ignore instructions, and break in weird ways all the time. So how do you trust them before shoving to production? 🤔
We tested an AI agent with Vijil AI and ngrok and what we learned about agent failure (& trust) surprised us.
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ai...
We tested an AI agent with Vijil AI and ngrok and what we learned about agent failure (& trust) surprised us.
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ai...
Some years ago, API gateways were just monoliths guarding THE prod.
Now? They’re everywhere: dev boxes, CI previews, LLM stacks, even your database. 🤷
We broke down 8 modern gateway "shapes" and where ngrok fits into each one.🔮
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ap...
Now? They’re everywhere: dev boxes, CI previews, LLM stacks, even your database. 🤷
We broke down 8 modern gateway "shapes" and where ngrok fits into each one.🔮
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ap...
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Some years ago, API gateways were just monoliths guarding THE prod.
Now? They’re everywhere: dev boxes, CI previews, LLM stacks, even your database. 🤷
We broke down 8 modern gateway "shapes" and where ngrok fits into each one.🔮
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ap...
Now? They’re everywhere: dev boxes, CI previews, LLM stacks, even your database. 🤷
We broke down 8 modern gateway "shapes" and where ngrok fits into each one.🔮
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ap...
Let's not hardcode our secrets in the Policy YAMLs. 🙅
Secrets for Traffic Policy has been in open beta for a while!
Store API keys, passwords, and tokens in encrypted vaults, and reference them at runtime with secrets.get(). 🗝️
🔗 Read More: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...
Secrets for Traffic Policy has been in open beta for a while!
Store API keys, passwords, and tokens in encrypted vaults, and reference them at runtime with secrets.get(). 🗝️
🔗 Read More: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...
September 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Let's not hardcode our secrets in the Policy YAMLs. 🙅
Secrets for Traffic Policy has been in open beta for a while!
Store API keys, passwords, and tokens in encrypted vaults, and reference them at runtime with secrets.get(). 🗝️
🔗 Read More: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...
Secrets for Traffic Policy has been in open beta for a while!
Store API keys, passwords, and tokens in encrypted vaults, and reference them at runtime with secrets.get(). 🗝️
🔗 Read More: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...
Shipping with ngrok-operator via Helm? v0.20.0 just dropped. ☸️
This release upgrades to ngrok-go v2 with cleaner net.Conn handling and removes legacy CRDs like Tunnel, HTTPSEdge, NgrokModuleSet. 🏋️♂️
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
This release upgrades to ngrok-go v2 with cleaner net.Conn handling and removes legacy CRDs like Tunnel, HTTPSEdge, NgrokModuleSet. 🏋️♂️
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
September 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Shipping with ngrok-operator via Helm? v0.20.0 just dropped. ☸️
This release upgrades to ngrok-go v2 with cleaner net.Conn handling and removes legacy CRDs like Tunnel, HTTPSEdge, NgrokModuleSet. 🏋️♂️
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
This release upgrades to ngrok-go v2 with cleaner net.Conn handling and removes legacy CRDs like Tunnel, HTTPSEdge, NgrokModuleSet. 🏋️♂️
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
Hot off the press ♨️:
Yolanda Robla authored a blog on Dev.to about "How-to Safely Expose your MCP Servers Externally Using ngrok and ToolHive"! 👏
🔗Give it a read: dev.to/stacklok/how...
Yolanda Robla authored a blog on Dev.to about "How-to Safely Expose your MCP Servers Externally Using ngrok and ToolHive"! 👏
🔗Give it a read: dev.to/stacklok/how...
September 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hot off the press ♨️:
Yolanda Robla authored a blog on Dev.to about "How-to Safely Expose your MCP Servers Externally Using ngrok and ToolHive"! 👏
🔗Give it a read: dev.to/stacklok/how...
Yolanda Robla authored a blog on Dev.to about "How-to Safely Expose your MCP Servers Externally Using ngrok and ToolHive"! 👏
🔗Give it a read: dev.to/stacklok/how...
ngrok's new close-connection action started off as an internal tool to better protect ngrok-dot-com and lets you drop unwanted requests right from your Traffic Policy. 🫳
Simply bail hard when a request isn’t worth handling. 🤷
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/te...
Simply bail hard when a request isn’t worth handling. 🤷
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/te...
August 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
ngrok's new close-connection action started off as an internal tool to better protect ngrok-dot-com and lets you drop unwanted requests right from your Traffic Policy. 🫳
Simply bail hard when a request isn’t worth handling. 🤷
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/te...
Simply bail hard when a request isn’t worth handling. 🤷
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/te...
Block threats at the edge with just 5️⃣lines of YAML. ✋
ngrok now supports WAF actions powered by the OWASP Core Rule Set, built right into Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Set up without standing up new services or adding more network hops: ngrok.com/blog-post/bl...
ngrok now supports WAF actions powered by the OWASP Core Rule Set, built right into Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Set up without standing up new services or adding more network hops: ngrok.com/blog-post/bl...
August 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Block threats at the edge with just 5️⃣lines of YAML. ✋
ngrok now supports WAF actions powered by the OWASP Core Rule Set, built right into Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Set up without standing up new services or adding more network hops: ngrok.com/blog-post/bl...
ngrok now supports WAF actions powered by the OWASP Core Rule Set, built right into Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Set up without standing up new services or adding more network hops: ngrok.com/blog-post/bl...
Internet’s next users may not be humans, and one thing's for sure; they won’t click, they’ll call tools. 🤖🛠️
Smithery is shaping the agent-first internet, for builders and bots alike, and with ngrok embedded in their CLI, there's zero config or friction at it!
🔗Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/sm...
Smithery is shaping the agent-first internet, for builders and bots alike, and with ngrok embedded in their CLI, there's zero config or friction at it!
🔗Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/sm...
August 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Internet’s next users may not be humans, and one thing's for sure; they won’t click, they’ll call tools. 🤖🛠️
Smithery is shaping the agent-first internet, for builders and bots alike, and with ngrok embedded in their CLI, there's zero config or friction at it!
🔗Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/sm...
Smithery is shaping the agent-first internet, for builders and bots alike, and with ngrok embedded in their CLI, there's zero config or friction at it!
🔗Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/sm...
ngrok is now officially in the Microsoft Store!
If you're on Windows, it's the easiest and most secure way to install ngrok.
✅ Auto updates
✅ Verified source
🆕 winget install ngrok -s msstore
🆕 scoop install ngrok
🔗Get started: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
If you're on Windows, it's the easiest and most secure way to install ngrok.
✅ Auto updates
✅ Verified source
🆕 winget install ngrok -s msstore
🆕 scoop install ngrok
🔗Get started: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
August 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
ngrok is now officially in the Microsoft Store!
If you're on Windows, it's the easiest and most secure way to install ngrok.
✅ Auto updates
✅ Verified source
🆕 winget install ngrok -s msstore
🆕 scoop install ngrok
🔗Get started: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
If you're on Windows, it's the easiest and most secure way to install ngrok.
✅ Auto updates
✅ Verified source
🆕 winget install ngrok -s msstore
🆕 scoop install ngrok
🔗Get started: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...
Need to validate users with your own identity service before traffic hits your app? 🤨
With ngrok’s http-request action, you can authenticate requests mid-flight using your internal auth logic, then route or enrich traffic accordingly. 🫶
🔗 Learn More: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
With ngrok’s http-request action, you can authenticate requests mid-flight using your internal auth logic, then route or enrich traffic accordingly. 🫶
🔗 Learn More: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
August 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Need to validate users with your own identity service before traffic hits your app? 🤨
With ngrok’s http-request action, you can authenticate requests mid-flight using your internal auth logic, then route or enrich traffic accordingly. 🫶
🔗 Learn More: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
With ngrok’s http-request action, you can authenticate requests mid-flight using your internal auth logic, then route or enrich traffic accordingly. 🫶
🔗 Learn More: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Not all users are equal. Your rate limits shouldn’t be either. 🤷
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can dynamically validate requests against your identity or CRM service and apply tier-based limits per user.
🥉 to 🥇, handled in YAML.
🔗 Learn more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can dynamically validate requests against your identity or CRM service and apply tier-based limits per user.
🥉 to 🥇, handled in YAML.
🔗 Learn more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
July 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Not all users are equal. Your rate limits shouldn’t be either. 🤷
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can dynamically validate requests against your identity or CRM service and apply tier-based limits per user.
🥉 to 🥇, handled in YAML.
🔗 Learn more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can dynamically validate requests against your identity or CRM service and apply tier-based limits per user.
🥉 to 🥇, handled in YAML.
🔗 Learn more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
We are joining forces with our friends at DigitalOcean and Facets Cloud to host a community-focused event right after KubeCon India! 🇮🇳
📆 August 8, 2025
🕠 5:30 PM IST Onwards
📍 Zero40 Brewery, Hyderabad
🔗 lu.ma/syan84oc
RSVP today!
📆 August 8, 2025
🕠 5:30 PM IST Onwards
📍 Zero40 Brewery, Hyderabad
🔗 lu.ma/syan84oc
RSVP today!
July 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We are joining forces with our friends at DigitalOcean and Facets Cloud to host a community-focused event right after KubeCon India! 🇮🇳
📆 August 8, 2025
🕠 5:30 PM IST Onwards
📍 Zero40 Brewery, Hyderabad
🔗 lu.ma/syan84oc
RSVP today!
📆 August 8, 2025
🕠 5:30 PM IST Onwards
📍 Zero40 Brewery, Hyderabad
🔗 lu.ma/syan84oc
RSVP today!
Host multiple services behind a single domain, without having to deal with the DNS side of it. 🌐
Dynamically route traffic to internal services by subdomain or headers with clean multiplexing via Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Get started: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Dynamically route traffic to internal services by subdomain or headers with clean multiplexing via Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Get started: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
July 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Host multiple services behind a single domain, without having to deal with the DNS side of it. 🌐
Dynamically route traffic to internal services by subdomain or headers with clean multiplexing via Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Get started: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Dynamically route traffic to internal services by subdomain or headers with clean multiplexing via Traffic Policy. 🚦
🔗 Get started: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Writing Traffic Policy that works is easy. Writing one that scales? 🤔✏️
From chaining and grouping to failovers and catch-alls, here’s a guide to cleaner, smarter policies with YAML you won’t hate later, curated by @joelhans.com!
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/pa...
From chaining and grouping to failovers and catch-alls, here’s a guide to cleaner, smarter policies with YAML you won’t hate later, curated by @joelhans.com!
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/pa...
July 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Writing Traffic Policy that works is easy. Writing one that scales? 🤔✏️
From chaining and grouping to failovers and catch-alls, here’s a guide to cleaner, smarter policies with YAML you won’t hate later, curated by @joelhans.com!
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/pa...
From chaining and grouping to failovers and catch-alls, here’s a guide to cleaner, smarter policies with YAML you won’t hate later, curated by @joelhans.com!
🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/pa...
Want to self-host n8n but don’t want to deal with DNS or hosting (*shocking*)? 🦾
Give ngrok a go and get a public URL, secure access with Traffic Policy, and IP-restricted dashboards, all with a singular command! 🙌
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Give ngrok a go and get a public URL, secure access with Traffic Policy, and IP-restricted dashboards, all with a singular command! 🙌
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Expose and Secure Your Self-Hosted n8n Workflows | ngrok documentation
Get your n8n instance online to share with colleagues or receive webhook data with security measures desinged for production usage.
ngrok.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Want to self-host n8n but don’t want to deal with DNS or hosting (*shocking*)? 🦾
Give ngrok a go and get a public URL, secure access with Traffic Policy, and IP-restricted dashboards, all with a singular command! 🙌
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Give ngrok a go and get a public URL, secure access with Traffic Policy, and IP-restricted dashboards, all with a singular command! 🙌
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Protect your Minecraft server from sneaky griefers. ⛏️
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can lock your server down by IP in just a few lines of YAML with no plugins and definitely no fuss.
Build in peace and 25565 away. 🧱
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can lock your server down by IP in just a few lines of YAML with no plugins and definitely no fuss.
Build in peace and 25565 away. 🧱
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Secure Your Public Minecraft Server | ngrok documentation
Unwanted players can quickly destroy your hard work, but you can restrict access by letting in a specific set of IP addresses.
ngrok.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Protect your Minecraft server from sneaky griefers. ⛏️
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can lock your server down by IP in just a few lines of YAML with no plugins and definitely no fuss.
Build in peace and 25565 away. 🧱
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can lock your server down by IP in just a few lines of YAML with no plugins and definitely no fuss.
Build in peace and 25565 away. 🧱
Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...
Been meaning to call pre-deployed services through Traffic Policy? 🚦
We just added a 🆕 action, http-request, that can trigger auth checks, logging, or external APIs directly from your Traffic Policy.
No extra code. Just YAML and ✨.
Available now in Developer Preview!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog-post/ht...
We just added a 🆕 action, http-request, that can trigger auth checks, logging, or external APIs directly from your Traffic Policy.
No extra code. Just YAML and ✨.
Available now in Developer Preview!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog-post/ht...
Introducing http-request: Call your services directly from Traffic Policy - ngrok
Trigger internal services, validate requests, log events, connect to AI APIs, and generally give your gateway a brain with the new http-request action.
ngrok.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Been meaning to call pre-deployed services through Traffic Policy? 🚦
We just added a 🆕 action, http-request, that can trigger auth checks, logging, or external APIs directly from your Traffic Policy.
No extra code. Just YAML and ✨.
Available now in Developer Preview!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog-post/ht...
We just added a 🆕 action, http-request, that can trigger auth checks, logging, or external APIs directly from your Traffic Policy.
No extra code. Just YAML and ✨.
Available now in Developer Preview!
🔗 ngrok.com/blog-post/ht...
Hardcoding secrets in your Policy YAML? Not anymore! 🔐
With 🆕Secrets for Traffic Policy, you can now store sensitive values like passwords or API keys in secure vaults, and reference them at runtime!
No more leaky secrets. No more risks.
Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...
With 🆕Secrets for Traffic Policy, you can now store sensitive values like passwords or API keys in secure vaults, and reference them at runtime!
No more leaky secrets. No more risks.
Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...
Decouple policy from sensitive data: introducing Secrets for Traffic Policy - ngrok
Secrets let you define and manage sensitive values in secure vaults—no more hardcoding or repetitive edits during regular credential rotations.
ngrok.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hardcoding secrets in your Policy YAML? Not anymore! 🔐
With 🆕Secrets for Traffic Policy, you can now store sensitive values like passwords or API keys in secure vaults, and reference them at runtime!
No more leaky secrets. No more risks.
Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...
With 🆕Secrets for Traffic Policy, you can now store sensitive values like passwords or API keys in secure vaults, and reference them at runtime!
No more leaky secrets. No more risks.
Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...