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Universal Gateway

ngrok's Universal Gateway is a globally distributed API Gateway. It secures, accelerates and protects and accelerates your applications. We call it a Universal Gateway because it also supports TCP and TLS applications.

Concepts

Dive into the different parts of the Universal Gateway like Endpoints, Bindings, Pools and Domains to understand how they work.

Endpoints

Endpoint Bindings

Public Endpoints

Internal Endpoints

Kubernetes Endpoints

Load Balancing

Endpoints Pools make load balancing dead simple. When your create two endpoints with the same URL (and binding), those endpoints automatically "pool" together and traffic to their URL is balanced among them.

TLS

ngrok automatically handles TLS (SSL) termination and certificate management for you. There is typically nothing to setup, configure or manage.

Global Load Balancer

ngrok's Global Load Balancer automatically improves the performance and resiliency of your applications by distributing traffic to the nearest healthy point of presence, measured by latency, from the perspective of the connecting client.

DDoS Protection

ngrok automatically protects your applications with out-of-the-box protection from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.