Posts tagged “API gateway”
Showing 46 posts tagged with API gateway.
API gateway shapes: back then, now, and beyond
Explore eight new gateway patterns—from CI/CD previews to multi-model AI—that show why gateways are no longer prod-only infrastructure.
By Joel Hans
September 16, 2025
The ngrok cheatsheet
How to run ngrok with Slack webhook authentication? GitHub OAuth? How to serve files? This cheat sheet shows you what else you can do with ngrok!
September 9, 2025
Self-hosted local AI workflows with Docker, n8n, Ollama, and ngrok
The shortest path to the best of all worlds: AI-driven automation, simple deployments with containers and a GUI, and a gateway to knit it all together securely.
By Joel Hans
August 20, 2025
Block threats before they reach your services with our new WAF actions
Two new Traffic Policy actions, powered by OWASP CRS, drop malicious requests and responses at the edge, with no extra WAF service required.
August 18, 2025
Five ways ngrokkers 'doglab' gateways for homelabs and side projects
How do they build gateways to route and authenticate traffic to blogs, OSS analytics services, photo-sharing apps, and much more with Traffic Policy?
From nginx to ngrok: Dogfooding our own website with Traffic Policy
We built an API gateway, then turned it on ourselves. Here's the full story of how we replaced nginx and now host ngrok.com with Kubernetes and Traffic Policy.
Introducing http-request: Call your services directly from Traffic Policy
Trigger internal services, validate requests, log events, connect to AI APIs, and generally give your gateway a brain with the new http-request action.
Decouple policy from sensitive data: introducing Secrets for Traffic Policy
Secrets let you define and manage sensitive values in secure vaults—no more hardcoding or repetitive edits during regular credential rotations.
ngrok's Go SDK v2: simple, streamlined, more powerful
Embed a secure gateway into your Go app in one function call and run it anywhere—then make it soar by managing traffic with Traffic Policy.
Use the load balancing power of Endpoint Pools for canary deploys and beyond
Load balancing isn't just for scaling replicas—see what else Endpoint Pools can do, like canaries and risk-free (or at least less risky!) gateway changes.
By Joel Hans
May 22, 2025
Introducing Endpoint Pools: Load balance anything, anywhere
With ngrok Endpoint Pools, load balancing is just starting endpoints with the same URL. Zero config. Elastic scale. Cross-cloud ready.
By Alan Shreve
May 20, 2025
Automate Kubernetes testing with GitHub Actions and the ngrok Operator
Deploy a Kubernetes cluster, install the ngrok Operator, and validate your Helm charts or deployments—all inside GitHub Actions. Fast, clean, and repeatable.
By Jen Kagan
April 29, 2025
ngrok is also now your Kubernetes ingress
Simplify your Kubernetes ingress stack: global load balancing, DDoS protection, and flexible routing all built into ngrok’s Operator.
Terminate TLS however (and wherever) you want with Traffic Policy
Need custom certs? Want fast mTLS setup? ngrok’s terminate-tls action gives you complete TLS control from one declarative config.
By Joel Hans
April 23, 2025
Deploy custom error pages with your logo, your messages, your way
You can't always control when your services crash, but with Traffic Policy and custom responses, you can build consistent and helpful error pages in minutes.
By Joel Hans
April 15, 2025
How I build secure (and VPN-less!) industrial IoT connectivity
One ngrok agent per factory = secure IoT access, no open firewalls, no VPN pain. Learn how cloud endpoints simplify industrial connectivity.
By Ishan Jain
March 19, 2025
Four ways multicloud breaks you (and how API gateways help)
Multicloud isn’t magic—it’s a mess of networking, configuration, security, and observability pain. API gateways can help—here’s how to fix it the easy way.
By Joel Hans
March 11, 2025
Put your APIs online the easy and composable way
A composable API gateway means total flexibility. Learn how ngrok's endpoints and Traffic Policy make exposing, routing to, securing, and scaling APIs a cinch.
By Joel Hans
March 6, 2025
Introducing Cloud Endpoints
Have you ever wanted an ngrok endpoint that doesn’t go offline when you get disconnected from the internet? Now possible with always-on cloud endpoints.
February 24, 2025
Introducing IP Intelligence to control unwanted traffic
Learn how ngrok's IP Intelligence gives you powerful tools to identify and block bots, scrapers, and malicious traffic at your API gateway.
By Russ Savage
January 15, 2025
Protect services with a circuit breaker at your API gateway
Implement circuit breaking at your API gateway to prevent cascading failures and protect services, and without having to add more complexity to your APIs.
By Joel Hans
January 6, 2025
Introducing the Basic Auth Traffic Policy action
Secure your endpoints with ngrok’s Basic Auth Traffic Policy, compatible with both interactive and programmatic access to your APIs or apps, in a few minutes.
Dynamic routing with CEL interpolation and the forward-internal action
Simplify and scale complex traffic routing topologies by dynamically routing requests based on subdomains, headers, and other request attributes.
December 19, 2024
The 3 big problems holding back API gateway observability
Deployment complexity, environment constraints, and poor debugging tools create more barriers to API gateway maturity than they do benefits.
By Joel Hans
December 18, 2024
Why and how we ‘stringified’ your API gateway policies
By replacing highly typed configs with raw YAML/JSON, we’ve eliminated a major UX papercut and given you feature updates “for free.” Let’s see what’s changed.
By Ryan Grant
December 12, 2024
Create a self-service app and API delivery platform with composable Traffic Policy
ngrok lets you manipulate traffic at multiple moments in the request lifecycle, allowing API developers to compose, not compromise, powerful API gateway rules.
By Joel Hans
December 10, 2024
Manage traffic on a region-aware API gateway—without the networking
Build a region-aware API gateway with ngrok's Traffic Policy. Route requests, manage failover, and enforce regional compliance with simple YAML configs.
By Joel Hans
December 4, 2024
How can I geoblock with an API gateway?
Use geoblocking in your API gateway to control traffic by location, enhancing security, compliance, and performance
November 22, 2024
Debug traffic flows with cloud endpoints and custom responses
By using the custom-response Traffic Policy action and a public endpoint, you can quickly develop new policy rules without standing up a whole infrastructure.
By Joel Hans
November 12, 2024
Flexible and expressive traffic orchestration: introducing internal endpoints
Internal endpoints are secure, non-public endpoints that end with .internal, allowing you to route traffic based on headers, paths, subdomains, and more.
October 29, 2024
How we built the Traffic Policy module and its actions
Traffic Policy is now the one true (and final!) way to shape your requests and responses. Let’s explore why we built it, how, and what it means for you.
October 23, 2024
Drop-in API gateway policy examples for manipulating headers
With these ready-for-prod Traffic Policy rules, you can boost your security, give customers SLA metrics, and create geo-aware APIs in a few lines of YAML.
By Joel Hans
October 17, 2024
ngrok in production: Not just for testing anymore
Transform how you handle production traffic with ngrok, enhancing security and management for your applications beyond just testing.
September 18, 2024
Deploy advanced HTTP traffic shaping with request variables and CEL
Explore ngrok's request variables and Common Expression Language to create flexible, powerful HTTP traffic shaping rules for your API endpoints.
By Joel Hans
September 12, 2024
Deploy a globally-distributed API gateway with DigitalOcean and ngrok
Deliver low-latency, resilient APIs without vendor lock-in or complex networking with ngrok’s global server load balancer, automatically deployed with your API.
By Team ngrok
September 10, 2024
How to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) with ngrok’s API gateway
Mutual TLS (mTLS) with an API gateway can help you meet compliance requirements in industries that demand high security for data transmission.
By Joel Hans
August 13, 2024
Redirect vs URL rewrite in an API gateway
Find out the difference between URL rewriting and redirection and how to utilize them to seamlessly migrate your API endpoints
August 8, 2024
APIOps and an API gateway: Get your development groove back
Discover how GitOps and APIOps can revolutionize your API gateway workflow, offering version control, easy deployment, and developer sanity with ngrok.
By Joel Hans
August 6, 2024
Ingress controller vs. API gateway: A comparison
Ingress controllers and API gateways have some overlapping functionality, and this post helps you know when to use one over the other—or both!
API gateway gallery: Drop-in API policy management examples
With these 10 YAML-configured examples, you can mix-and-match your way to better security, availability, and observability of your freshest APIs.
By Joel Hans
May 30, 2024
Secure your API with JWTs and ngrok’s API Gateway
Secure your APIs with JWT authentication using ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway for enhanced security and seamless integration.
By Joel Hans
May 16, 2024
Developer experience in deployed API gateways: Kong vs. ngrok
Discover the simplicity of ngrok's API gateway and compare it to Kong for enabling developer productivity, ease of use, and rapid deployment capabilities.
By Joel Hans
May 14, 2024
Reverse proxy vs. API gateway: Key differences explained
Reverse proxies and API gateways share many similarities. This post helps you understand how these technologies differ and when to use each one.
By Chad Tindel
April 17, 2024
Transform connectivity with ngrok: A strategic edge for modern enterprises
Learn how ngrok redefines digital transformation, offering strategic advantages in security, efficiency, and innovation for modern enterprises.
By Chad Tindel
March 21, 2024
Introducing JWT validation for your API
ngrok's developer-defined API gateway introduces support for JWT validation. Learn about ngrok's implementation and how to add JWT validation to your APIs.
February 26, 2024
Introducing ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway: Shifting the paradigm of API delivery
ngrok's composable API gateway allows you to filter traffic, route to any number of upstream API services and more—all powered by our Traffic Policy engine.
February 15, 2024
