An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
ngrok offers developers a cloud-based ingress solution that replaces existing network and security fencing with a zero-trust, reverse-proxy access layer for cloud, on-prem and IoT devices.
It seems like every component and endpoint in an enterprise IT estate has its own ingress controllers and SDKs. They were put in place to attempt to authorize and authenticate traffic coming into the network from the internet at large, but these days, we see infinite flavors of incoming requests for IoT devices and data lakes from ephemeral Kubernetes namespaces and event-based data streams.
Normalizing ingress across heterogeneous sources offers developers a number of advantages, including built-in network traffic observability and no need to futz with policy configuration for every integration. Requests and responses do not need to use DNS addresses or touch network fencing. DevOps teams no longer need to submit Jira tickets to get IT Ops teams to provision any of the old hardware (whether real or software-defined) once associated with ingress—no load balancer or firewall, no reverse proxy, no gateways to set up.
The solution allows development teams to commit and deploy features, and then publish an API interface without conventional ports that hackers can scan or exploit. You (n)grok?
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