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API gateway shapes: back then, now, and beyond
Explore eight new gateway patterns—from CI/CD previews to multi-model AI—that show why gateways are no longer prod-only infrastructure.
By Joel Hans
September 16, 2025
Five ways ngrokkers 'doglab' gateways for homelabs and side projects
How do they build gateways to route and authenticate traffic to blogs, OSS analytics services, photo-sharing apps, and much more with Traffic Policy?
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
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
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 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.
By Russ Savage
January 15, 2025
Dynamic routing with CEL interpolation and the forward-internal action
Simplify and scale complex traffic routing topologies by dynamically routing requests based on subdomains, headers, and other request attributes.
December 19, 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.
By Joel Hans
December 18, 2024
How can I geoblock with an API gateway?
Use geoblocking in your API gateway to control traffic by location, enhancing security, compliance, and performance
November 22, 2024
Debug traffic flows with cloud endpoints and custom responses
By using the custom-response Traffic Policy action and a public endpoint, you can quickly develop new policy rules without standing up a whole infrastructure.
By Joel Hans
November 12, 2024
Drop-in API gateway policy examples for manipulating headers
With these ready-for-prod Traffic Policy rules, you can boost your security, give customers SLA metrics, and create geo-aware APIs in a few lines of YAML.
By Joel Hans
October 17, 2024
Deploy a globally-distributed API gateway with DigitalOcean and ngrok
Deliver low-latency, resilient APIs without vendor lock-in or complex networking with ngrok’s global server load balancer, automatically deployed with your API.
By Team ngrok
September 10, 2024
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.
By Joel Hans
August 13, 2024
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
August 8, 2024
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.
By Joel Hans
August 6, 2024
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.
By Joel Hans
May 30, 2024
