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Developer's guide: Manage traffic with CEL expressions and connection variables
Explore how ngrok's Traffic Policy feature helps developers filter traffic, without requiring help from ops, with raw connection variable data and CEL.
How to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) with ngrok’s API gateway
Mutual TLS (mTLS) with an API gateway can help you meet compliance requirements in industries that demand high security for data transmission.
Redirect vs URL rewrite in an API gateway
Find out the difference between URL rewriting and redirection and how to utilize them to seamlessly migrate your API endpoints
APIOps and an API gateway: Get your development groove back
Discover how GitOps and APIOps can revolutionize your API gateway workflow, offering version control, easy deployment, and developer sanity with ngrok.
Data at ngrok: A primer
Understand how ngrok handles your data with advanced security measures, offering clarity and control over your traffic flows and storage.
MicroK8s and ngrok: Easy ingress at the edge
Leverage ngrok with MicroK8s for efficient, secure edge computing and easy Kubernetes ingress setup across your networks.
How to build connectors to on-premise services for workflow automation
Streamline workflow automation by connecting on-premises services with ngrok’s secure, efficient connectors for various APIs.
It’s about time: Format timestamps and time zones in the ngrok dashboard
Customize timestamps in your ngrok dashboard to streamline debugging and enhance event observability across time zones.
Traffic Policy Engine now supports dynamic configuration with CEL Interpolation
Enhance your traffic policy management with ngrok's CEL Interpolation, enabling dynamic, adaptable configurations for APIs.
How ngrok’s GSLB elevates Linode-hosted SaaS performance and resilience
Discover how ngrok’s Global Server Load Balancing also brings multi-cloud and smoother application delivery to SaaS hosted globally on Linode VMs or k8s clusters.
Traffic Policy support for the Kubernetes Gateway API
We have added a policy CRD, which can support traffic policies in the ngrok Kubernetes Operator, enabling traffic policy actions on the Gateway API.
Traffic Policy Engine - What are CEL variables?
Harness the power of CEL variables in ngrok’s Traffic Policy Module to create dynamic, robust traffic filtering rules for your APIs.
Ingress controller vs. API gateway: A comparison
Ingress controllers and API gateways have some overlapping functionality, and this post helps you know when to use one over the other—or both!
What is port forwarding?
Think of port forwarding as opening a specific "door" on your network to let in and route traffic to specific services. Learn more in this post.
ngrok Accounts Now Require a Valid Payment Method to use TCP Endpoints
In an effort to curb abuse, a valid payment method must be added to your ngrok account, including the free tier, before using TCP endpoints.
ngrok Network Traffic Inspector is now Generally Available with replay and additional retention
Capture, inspect, and replay traffic for up to 90 days from the ngrok dashboard with our Network Traffic Inspector, now GA.
What is mTLS (mutual TLS) and how does it enhance security?
Learn how mTLS enhances TLS by requiring mutual authentication between client and server using digital certificates for better security.
API gateway gallery: Drop-in API policy management examples
With these 10 YAML-configured examples, you can mix-and-match your way to better security, availability, and observability of your freshest APIs.
An introduction to the Kubernetes Gateway API
Take a look at key concepts of Kubernetes Gateway API, advantages over traditional approaches, and use for effective traffic control in deployments.
Secure site-to-site connectivity: Implement now with ngrok’s new guides
Use our new guides to self-serve site-to-site connectivity to APIs, databases, and device service APIs in external networks.
