The ngrok blog
Apr 23, 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.
Apr 21, 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.
Apr 17, 2025
Add secure ingress to the Kubernetes API
Want remote access to your Kubernetes API without VPNs or other complicated networking? ngrok’s K8s Operator makes it secure, declarative, and RBAC-friendly.
Apr 15, 2025
Deploy custom error pages, 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.
Mar 27, 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.
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Mar 19, 2025
How I build secure industrial IoT connectivity
One ngrok agent per factory = secure IoT access, no open firewalls, no VPN pain. Learn how cloud endpoints simplify industrial connectivity.
Mar 11, 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.
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Mar 6, 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.
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Feb 24, 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.
Feb 6, 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.
Jan 27, 2025
Secure remote access to Ollama and DeepSeek
Your simplest path to AI collaboration or development using ngrok and Deepseek with an assist from Ollama and a GPU-accelerated virtual machine.
Jan 15, 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.
Jan 6, 2025
API gateway circuit breakers: protect services
Implement circuit breaking at your API gateway to prevent cascading failures and protect services, and without having to add more complexity to your APIs.
Jan 2, 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.
Dec 19, 2024
Dynamic routing with CEL interpolation
Simplify and scale complex traffic routing topologies by dynamically routing requests based on subdomains, headers, and other request attributes.
Dec 18, 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.
Dec 12, 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.
Dec 10, 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.
Dec 4, 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.
Dec 3, 2024
Verify webhooks with ngrok’s new Traffic Policy action
Ensure secure, verified webhook interactions with ngrok’s Traffic Policy Action, enhancing protection and reliability for your endpoints.
