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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...