Intro to Ngrok

Short talk for RESTFest in Edinburgh

1. ngrok: Secure Tunnel to Localhost Lorna Jane Mitchell, RESTFest Edinburgh 2016
2. Overview • install and run locally • opens a tunnel to your machine • useful for development, debugging • web interface for inspect/replay @lornajane
3. Run It Locally Choose the protocol and port to expose, e.g.: ngrok http 4000 @lornajane
4. Check Out The Dashboard It's usually at http://localhost:4040 • inspect requests and responses • replay requests @lornajane
5. ngrok On Your Virtual Machines For dev platforms, just run the tool on the VM Use the --host-header command line argument to change the host header to what your app expects @lornajane
6. ngrok On Your Virtual Machines By default the dashboard binds to 127.0.0.1, fix that by using a config file for ngrok (~/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml). web_addr: 0.0.0.0:4040 tunnels: api: proto: http addr: 80 host_header: "api.dev.joind.in" @lornajane
7. Thanks! Slides: http://lornajane.net/resources Contact: • lorna.mitchell@uk.ibm.com • @lornajane @lornajane