Ngrok, a platform for ingress-as-a-service that prioritizes APIs, has launched its Kubernetes Ingress Controller to enable developers to access Kubernetes securely. The new infrastructure and tools would allow developers to handle production Kubernetes workloads “securely and conveniently” with the same security and ease of use ngrok is known for.
The ngrok Ingress Controller for Kubernetes would encapsulate “the strength of the ngrok platform” in the common cloud-native APIs that integration teams for operations and development currently use.
The platform is used by over six million developers, including organizations such as Zendesk, Copado, and Veritas. Ngrok claims its technology to be widely considered the de facto standard tool for developers due to its ease of use. It has received investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue. Many of the world’s largest technological companies, such as Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, Shopify, Zoom, and Twilio, would also promote it in their documentation.
Global Network
Other ingress controllers would require operators to perform complex networking setups. The ngrok Kubernetes Ingress Controller provides a plug-and-play experience that removes operational effort. The distinctive design of the ngrok Ingress Controller would help accelerate workloads while protecting applications. The global network of ngrok receives traffic ingestion and middleware functions like OAuth, mutual TLS, and load balancing and pushes them there, where they are blocked and network attacks would be mitigated before they ever reach origin networks.“The ngrok Kubernetes Ingress Controller provides a great alternative to the Consul API Gateway for providing ingress traffic into Consul service mesh, whether the mesh is powered by servers on self-managed infrastructure or by the HashiCorp Cloud Platform,” said David Yu, Senior Product Manager at HashiCorp. “We look forward to what they can do for Consul and the ecosystem as a whole.”
