ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost

"I want to expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the Internet."

This repository packages the ngrok agent for snap.

Installing

sudo snap install ngrok

What is ngrok?

ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay.

What can I do with ngrok?

• Expose any http service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a subdomain of ngrok.com.
• Expose any tcp service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a random port of ngrok.com.
• Inspect all http requests/responses that are transmitted over the tunnel.
• Replay any request that was transmitted over the tunnel.

What is ngrok useful for?

• Temporarily sharing a website that is only running on your development machine.
• Demoing an app at a hackathon without deploying.
• Developing any services which consume webhooks (HTTP callbacks) by allowing you to replay those requests.
• Debugging and understanding any web service by inspecting the HTTP traffic.
• Running networked services on machines that are firewalled off from the Internet.

Regarding: the latest release track

In the transition to the v3 ngrok agent, we split tracks into v2 and v3. v3 is the new default and hence "true" latest. The latest track is left on our v2 agent for supporting legacy customers but may be deprecated in the future.