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ngrok vs Kubestack: What are the differences?
What is ngrok? Securely expose a local web server to the internet and capture all traffic for detailed inspection and replay. ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between 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 is Kubestack? GitOps framework based on Terraform and Kustomize. Kubestack provides tested and reusable Terraform modules and Kustomize manifests. Modules provision managed Kubernetes clusters from Amazon (EKS), Azure (AKS) and Google (GKE).
ngrok can be classified as a tool in the "localhost Tools" category, while Kubestack is grouped under "Container Tools".
Some of the features offered by ngrok are:
- 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
On the other hand, Kubestack provides the following key features:
- GitOps controlled infrastructure and cluster services
- Decoupled infrastructure and application environments
- Multi-cluster, multi-region and multi-cloud
ngrok is an open source tool with 18.6K GitHub stars and 3.28K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ngrok's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Kubestack
Pros of ngrok
- Easy to use26
- Super-fast11
- Free7
- Awesome traffic analysis page6
- Reliable custom domains5
- Mobile development1
- Shares service-wide metrics1
- Supports UTP And HTTPS0
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Cons of Kubestack
Cons of ngrok
- Doesn't Support UDP5
- El tunel SSH cambia de dominio constantemente1