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Block threats at the edge with just 5️⃣lines of YAML. ✋

ngrok now supports WAF actions powered by the OWASP Core Rule Set, built right into Traffic Policy. 🚦

🔗 Set up without standing up new services or adding more network hops: ngrok.com/blog-post/bl...

Internet’s next users may not be humans, and one thing's for sure; they won’t click, they’ll call tools. 🤖🛠️

Smithery is shaping the agent-first internet, for builders and bots alike, and with ngrok embedded in their CLI, there's zero config or friction at it!

🔗Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/sm...

ngrok is now officially in the Microsoft Store!

If you're on Windows, it's the easiest and most secure way to install ngrok.

✅ Auto updates
✅ Verified source

🆕 winget install ngrok -s msstore
🆕 scoop install ngrok

🔗Get started: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...

Need to validate users with your own identity service before traffic hits your app? 🤨

With ngrok’s http-request action, you can authenticate requests mid-flight using your internal auth logic, then route or enrich traffic accordingly. 🫶

🔗 Learn More: ngrok.com/docs/univers...

Not all users are equal. Your rate limits shouldn’t be either. 🤷

With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can dynamically validate requests against your identity or CRM service and apply tier-based limits per user.

🥉 to 🥇, handled in YAML.

🔗 Learn more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...

We are joining forces with our friends at DigitalOcean and Facets Cloud to host a community-focused event right after KubeCon India! 🇮🇳

📆 August 8, 2025
🕠 5:30 PM IST Onwards
📍 Zero40 Brewery, Hyderabad
🔗 lu.ma/syan84oc

RSVP today!

Host multiple services behind a single domain, without having to deal with the DNS side of it. 🌐

Dynamically route traffic to internal services by subdomain or headers with clean multiplexing via Traffic Policy. 🚦

🔗 Get started: ngrok.com/docs/univers...

ngrok Blog: How to write policies with patterns that scale

Writing Traffic Policy that works is easy. Writing one that scales? 🤔✏️

From chaining and grouping to failovers and catch-alls, here’s a guide to cleaner, smarter policies with YAML you won’t hate later, curated by @joelhans.com!

🔗 Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/pa...

Expose and Secure Your Self-Hosted n8n Workflows | ngrok documentation Get your n8n instance online to share with colleagues or receive webhook data with security measures desinged for production usage.

Want to self-host n8n but don’t want to deal with DNS or hosting (*shocking*)? 🦾

Give ngrok a go and get a public URL, secure access with Traffic Policy, and IP-restricted dashboards, all with a singular command! 🙌

Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...

Secure Your Public Minecraft Server | ngrok documentation Unwanted players can quickly destroy your hard work, but you can restrict access by letting in a specific set of IP addresses.

Protect your Minecraft server from sneaky griefers. ⛏️

With ngrok's Traffic Policy, you can lock your server down by IP in just a few lines of YAML with no plugins and definitely no fuss.

Build in peace and 25565 away. 🧱

Read more: ngrok.com/docs/univers...

Introducing http-request: Call your services directly from Traffic Policy - ngrok Trigger internal services, validate requests, log events, connect to AI APIs, and generally give your gateway a brain with the new http-request action.

Been meaning to call pre-deployed services through Traffic Policy? 🚦

We just added a 🆕 action, http-request, that can trigger auth checks, logging, or external APIs directly from your Traffic Policy.

No extra code. Just YAML and ✨.
Available now in Developer Preview!

🔗 ngrok.com/blog-post/ht...

Decouple policy from sensitive data: introducing Secrets for Traffic Policy - ngrok Secrets let you define and manage sensitive values in secure vaults—no more hardcoding or repetitive edits during regular credential rotations.

Hardcoding secrets in your Policy YAML? Not anymore! 🔐

With 🆕Secrets for Traffic Policy, you can now store sensitive values like passwords or API keys in secure vaults, and reference them at runtime!

No more leaky secrets. No more risks.

Read more: ngrok.com/blog-post/se...

YouTube video by ngrok KubeCon 2025 ☸️: ngrok founder Alan Shreve on simplifying infrastructure and beyond

Our CEO and Founder, Alan Shreve, talked about the evolution of ngrok from a simple dev tool to a full-fledged API gateway platform and why we dogfood our own products amidst so much more, in an interview with @rawkode.dev!

Give it a watch:
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvqV...

Shinobi's shortcut to AI-powered pentests in staging and dev envs - ngrok Shinobi’s AI red team agents test apps before attackers do, and with ngrok's Traffic Policy, they can integrate with customer's unique topology in minutes.

Shinobi runs AI-powered pentests in customer staging envs, no hacks required (except the good ones). 💻

With ngrok, they spin up secure, flexible access in 15 minutes, no matter how weird the network.
From zero to “we’re in” that fast. 💨

Read more ⬇️
ngrok.com/blog-post/sh...

ngrok's Go SDK v2: simple, streamlined, more powerful - ngrok 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.

ngrok-go v2 is here and it introduces a simplified, idiomatic interface with lower complexity and deeper platform integration.💡

In a nutshell, it's a cleaner, leaner way to embed ngrok in your Go apps that demands you to give it a go!

Read more ⬇️
ngrok.com/blog-post/go...

MCP Meetup w/ ngrok & Composio · Luma Tired of AI that can talk but can’t do? Want your LLM to send you emails, spin up a new GitHub repo, or maybe just become your personal assistant (hello Google…

Alright, San Francisco! We've joined forces with our friends at Composio to bring you an exclusive MCP Meetup, with 20 spots up for grabs. 🎟️

Come hang with us as we dive into the wild world of MCP, an open standard that’s basically a USB-C for AI!

🔗 lu.ma/ajv8d544

YouTube video by ngrok Multi-cluster (and multi-cloud!) ingress in 60 seconds with ngrok

Traditional load balancers are stuck in one cluster, one network, one cloud. But your workloads? They don’t have to be. 🤷

Watch this quick video by @joelhans.bsky.social on implementing multi-cluster (and multi-cloud!) ingress in 60 seconds with ngrok! ✅

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD1h...

Introducing Endpoint Pools: Load balance anything, anywhere - ngrok With ngrok Endpoint Pools, load balancing is just starting endpoints with the same URL. Zero config. Elastic scale. Cross-cloud ready.

Load balancing is now as simple as starting two endpoints with the same URL.

No configs, no complexity. Simple scaling.

Read more about Endpoint Pooling and give it a go with just ✌️ commands:
ngrok.com/blog-post/en...

Terminate TLS however (and wherever) you want with Traffic Policy - ngrok Need custom certs? Want fast mTLS setup? ngrok’s terminate-tls action gives you complete TLS control from one declarative config.

TLS termination should come with complete control over the "when" & "how".

With ngrok’s new Traffic Policy action, you choose exactly where TLS ends: at the edge, agent, or upstream service.

It’s a combo of flexibility & simplicity that’ll make you go "wow".

🔗 Read More: ngrok.com/blog-post/te...

Join us today at 10 AM Pacific for the latest edition of ngrok Office Hours, featuring Joel Hans, Senior Developer Educator, and Aaishika, Technical Community Manager! 📺

🔗 ngrok.com/resources/of...

TIL you can use @ngrok.com to listen to webhooks on localhost. Pretty cool.

ngrok is also now your Kubernetes ingress - ngrok Simplify your Kubernetes ingress stack: global load balancing, DDoS protection, and flexible routing all built into ngrok’s Operator.

Kubernetes ingress shouldn’t be a maze of YAML, VPNs, and duct tape. 🩹

ngrok is now your Kubernetes ingress—built to make production-ready networking effortless. Our Operator gives you full Gateway API and Ingress support, and so much more.

🧠 Read more here: ngrok.com/blog-post/ng...

Set variables in Traffic Policy for cleaner, reusable configs - ngrok Define lists, maps, and interpolated values inside your traffic management rules—then reference them anywhere—to make configs both simpler and more dynamic.

Everyone likes clean, reusable code; but is your traffic policy config just as tidy?

In our latest blog, read more about the set-vars action in ngrok’s Traffic Policy that we've just launched!

🔗 ngrok.com/blog-post/se...

Request a community license Request access to the ngrok community license, which offers free licenses to use ngrok for supporting or building active open source projects.

At ngrok, we believe in supporting the open source ecosystem by empowering those who contribute to it.

Maintainers can now get paid ngrok licenses, valid for a year, free of charge through the Community Licenses Program! 🌟

Read more and apply here: ngrok.com/info/communi...

How to use ngrok and Ollama to access a local LLM remotely The other day I was going through my o...

https://feed.thoughtbot.com/link/24077/16980822/ngrok-and-ollama

Event Attributes

This is amazing, thank you!

Excited to share our Fast3R paper, to be presented at #CVPR 2025. This recasts 3D reconstruction and camera pose estimation from video as an end-to-end learning problem, leading to ~4x-300x improvements in speed while maintaining performance.

Website: t.co/tiXbrXAZen
Demo: fast3r.ngrok.app

Join us for the ngrok Developer Roundtable! We welcome Micah Silverman, Director of DevSecOps Acceleration at Snyk, as we discuss API security.

🚨 94% of production APIs face security issues – are you prepared to tackle them?

Join @stmcallister.bsky.social as we talks with Micah Silverman from Snyk while they explore API security.

ngrok.com/resources/vi...

#APISecurity #DevSecOps #CyberSecurity #APIGateway

All done! Thanks everyone! Join me Friday, to see how I'll be using @ngrok.com for remote development.

www.youtube.com/live/EaTZIft...

It's 1900CT (Chicago) and I need help validating GitHub authentication works with this @ngrok.com #SpringBoot starter and @vaadin.com application.

Can you sign-in with GitHub here:

dashaun.ngrok.io

If not, tell me what error you get?

I'll shut it down in ~30-mins.

Thanks.