The ngrok blog
Dec 16, 2025
Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for: how tokens, embeddings, and attention make cached LLM tokens 10x cheaper and faster.
Dec 15, 2025
Introducing the ngrok AI gateway (early access)
Route AI requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and self-hosted models through one endpoint, with automatic failover, key rotation, and CEL-based selection.
Dec 10, 2025
How we built ngrok's WAF with OWASP CRS and Coraza
We integrated Coraza into our Traffic Policy system, ran it against every request to ngrok.com, and blocked 1.2% of traffic. Here's how we designed it and what attack patterns we're seeing.
Nov 17, 2025
Migrate from ingress-nginx to the ngrok Operator
A step-by-step guide to migrating from ingress-nginx to the ngrok Operator without downtime.
Nov 14, 2025
Secrets for Traffic Policy debuts in the dashboard and goes GA
Secrets for Traffic Policy is now generally available with a new dashboard experience.
Nov 4, 2025
How ngrok secures your apps with modern TLS
ngrok has deprecated of Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 across all ngrok endpoints. What does that mean for you?
Oct 31, 2025
ngrok-operator v0.21.0: status conditions galore
This release improves Status Condition consistency across CRDs and includes several bug fixes for LoadBalancer services.
Oct 29, 2025
Why didn't ngrok go down in last week's AWS outage?
How ngrok stayed available during the recent AWS us-east-1 outage, why we avoid the region, and the design choices that keep customer traffic flowing.
Oct 27, 2025
Self-hosting with and without ngrok
A step-by-step guide to self-hosting your web app using a VPS, Caddy, and systemd, with tips for using ngrok as an alternative.
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Oct 24, 2025
AI Gateways in 2025: The Original Guide
Our original 2025 take: the AI gold rush created a modern problem — too many shovels (models), too little gold (control). Are AI gateways the fix?
Oct 21, 2025
Sync secrets from external sources to ngrok with Kubernetes External Secrets
ngrok's Vaults can now pick up K8s secrets you already manage with with the OSS External Secrets project. Many third-party stores, one source of truth.
Oct 21, 2025
How Rinsed builds data pipelines in car washes: the lessons learned
From progressive degradation to network abstractions, Rinsed is building around ngrok's TLS endpoints to tap into data more valuable than the entire box office.
Sep 22, 2025
How Vijil built a trust layer for my first AI agent
Vijil’s platform tests your in-development agents against failure modes like prompt injection, PII leaks, and hallucinations—with a bit of help from ngrok.
Sep 16, 2025
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.
Sep 10, 2025
ngrok-operator v0.20.0: Go SDK v2 and edges removal
This release drops legacy CRDs, moves to ngrok-go v2, and cleans up old code as we prepare for ngrok-operator v1.0.
Sep 9, 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!
Aug 27, 2025
Secrets for Traffic Policy now in Open Beta
Manage sensitive values securely, reuse them across policies, and rotate them without editing policies—now open to everyone who's open to using the ngrok CLI!
Aug 25, 2025
ngrok is now HIPAA-compliant
HIPAA compliance opens ngrok for healthcare workloads—API gateways, webhook handling, and remote access with ePHI securely in transit.
Aug 20, 2025
Self-hosted AI workflows with n8n and Ollama
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.
Aug 19, 2025
Smithery is shaping the agent-first internet—for builders and bots alike
Smithery is building tools to help you build, test, and distribute your MCPs on one side, and a "Google for MCPs" on the other—here's how they do it with ngrok.
