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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.
June 18, 2025
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
Block bad actors and mitigate DDoS attacks with JA4 fingerprints
Tired of spoofed headers? Use JA4 to fingerprint clients by their TLS handshake and take action with ngrok Traffic Policy.
Battle against search and AI bots on your ngrok endpoints
Are search and AI bots invading your ngrok endpoints? Fight back with three developer-friendly traffic policies you can deploy in minutes.
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.
By Joel Hans
May 5, 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.
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.
By Joel Hans
April 25, 2025
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
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.
By Ishan Jain
April 21, 2025
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.
By Joel Hans
April 17, 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
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.
By Ishan Jain
March 27, 2025
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.
By Joel Hans
March 20, 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
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.
By Team ngrok
February 6, 2025
