Accessing the Kubernetes API for your clusters from anywhere or across any network is a powerful lever. It’s even better if you can do so without shipping or extending more messy networks…

Every API needs a front door. A welcoming threshold for the handshakes of requests and responses. A solid construction that won’t fall apart with all the traffic. And wouldn’t a screen door be nice to keep out the mosquitos — I mean, threat actors…

The most basic version of API rate limiting is like pouring a massive concrete dam across a river of incoming requests. You’ve successfully blocked the potential flood by allowing only a subset through as a small, artificial trickle. Mission…

Member post originally published on ngrok’s blog by Joel Hans Every autumn, as the weather here in Tucson, Arizona, finally transitions away from near-unbearable heat, my wife once again falls in love with the garden. Ripping out all the desiccated…

No one just walks into a successful heist. Casino robbers set up elaborate ruses involving stolen identities, secret explosives, and replica vaults. Bank thieves don’t ask to enter the vault—they conduct surveillance on bank security processes and…

“If the Death Star had a disaster recovery plan and test, then they probably would have realized they had an exposed thermal exhaust port. You know, it blew up.” There’s no one we trust more with disaster recovery planning (DRP)—even across galaxies…

Your first order of business on April 5, 2022? Run a script meant to delete a specific legacy app from your customers’ instances of your service. The script was peer-reviewed and cross-checked, so while your heart still races a bit knowing you’re…

In 2016, two buddies booked a room at a Gallup, New Mexico, motel on their long road trip to off-roading trails in California. In the middle of the night, a stranger unlocked their room’s door and walked in. They don’t say much about the…

On September 28, 2023, a simple mistake caused a chain reaction of security breaches that impacted some of tech’s biggest players, such as Cloudflare and 1Password. What happened? An employee at Okta—an identity and access management provider—simply…

You’ve diligently designed systems to back up your organization’s data—even your SaaS data—for the peace of mind of knowing that even if disaster strikes, you can quickly get your peers back in action and operating at their best. You’ve thought about…

As a service that helps folks back up and restore terabytes of data every week, we’ve seen data loss in all stripes. In countless chats with customers, we know that 40% of SaaS users have suffered data loss, making your odds of keeping your data…

Pundits and influencers have spent many a cycle gabbing about how DevOps and platform engineers must start building “golden paths” for their developer peers. Give these folks the right toolkit, and they’ll build faster, more consistently, and with…

The path to creating secure APIs isn’t through obscurity. In a recent piece on The New Stack, Allan Knabe argues the only way to secure APIs is a complex authentication handshake involving tokens and a hard dependency on a third-party service. With a…

In this guide, you'll launch a new cluster with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and a demo app. You'll then add the ngrok Kubernetes Ingress Controller to route public traffic directly to your demo app through an encrypted, feature-rich tunnel for a…

The best APIs are the minimally viable exposure to a much larger system of business logic, backend services, and infrastructure. The best API businesses follow that model, delivering only what your developer audience needs with absolutely zero…

Your CTO has finally asked the question you, as a developer, have been afraid of and eagerly awaiting: “Can you, pretty please, validate how we could train and host a custom AI model for our product?” Then they add a few caveats: “Can you host it in…

When you deploy your API product on the edge, you’re no more than 50ms from almost all the internet-connected folks in the world. It’s our favorite fact about an edge-optimized API, but not for the reasons you might think. Yes, sheer speed is great.…

Every autumn, as the weather here in Tucson, Arizona, finally transitions away from near-unbearable heat, my wife once again falls in love with the garden. Ripping out all the desiccated tomatoes and failed watermelon experiments. Turning over and…

The ngrok Ingress Controller for Kubernetes is the official controller for adding public and secure ingress traffic to your k8s services. This open source Ingress Controller works with any cloud, locally-hosted, or on-premises Kubernetes cluster to…