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Set variables in Traffic Policy for cleaner, reusable configs
Define lists, maps, and interpolated values inside your traffic management rules—then reference them anywhere—to make configs both simpler and more dynamic.
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.
The ultimate guide to effortless Kubernetes ingress with ngrok
Simplify your Kubernetes ingress stack: global load balancing, DDoS protection, and flexible routing all built into ngrok’s Operator.
•Apr 29, 2025
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•Tired of slow Kubernetes dev loops? Try local projection with bindings
Run your service on localhost, interact with it from any of your clusters—or all of them at once. ngrok makes the K8s dev loop feel magical again.
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.
Simplify your customer integrations with zero-VPN access
This is how I help modern teams do site-to-site connectivity: no VPNs, no sprawl—just secure tunnels and full control.
Add secure ingress to the Kubernetes API and access it anywhere
Want remote access to your Kubernetes API without VPNs or other complicated networking? ngrok’s K8s Operator makes it secure, declarative, and RBAC-friendly.
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.
Modernize and secure how you access remote devices
Ditch complex SSH/RDP chains and VPNs—here's how I help folks use ngrok to create secure and dynamic access to remote services or sites with a single agent.
All the ways to hang with an ngrokker (and see what they built) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
From Platform Engineering Day, to our booth at N611, to talks on Gateway API implementations and API gateway maturity, there are plenty of places to find us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How ngrok helps Sam develop and test LLM-powered RAG applications
Building LLM-fueled apps? See how one AI startup uses ngrok to develop locally against remote services and safely test LLM prompt changes without breaking prod.
Fast and secure ingress to remote AIs with ngrok, Deepseek, and Ollama
Your simplest path to AI collaboration or development using ngrok and Deepseek with an assist from Ollama and a GPU-accelerated virtual machine.
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.
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.
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.
•Jan 2, 2025
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•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.
