ngrok VS SaltStack

Many good reverse proxy solutions currently exist on the market such as ngrok and Cloudflare tunnels. They give one the ability to reliably run a tunnel and ensure it does not go down. They also offer the ability to securely access their links using whitelisted IP addresses or by using HTTP Basic Authentication.

These is a very common problem. Luckily, it's been solved already. My go-to tool for this was ngrok or localtunnel. Both of these tools are great, but they didn't fit my needs perfectly.

Ensure your app works as expected and provides a good user experience by thoroughly testing and debugging. Utilize tools like Chrome DevTools or Firefox Developer Tools to inspect and modify your app’s code, network, and storage. Employ tools like ngrok or localtunnel to expose your local development server to the internet, enabling testing on various devices and browsers.

ngrok

Tunnels (CloudFlare vs. Ngrok)

We need to make our WhatsApp API accessible on the internet so the trigger.dev cloud service can connect to it. We can do that by running ngrok in a separate terminal.

This means that Cronitor must have an endpoint that it can reach. Normally, we can't do that when developing on a personal machine. For this tutorial, however, we can use ngrok to establish a tunnel to our local Django application for testing purposes.

There are so many weird suggestions in the comments. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned ngrok https://ngrok.com/ (there are many competing alternatives as well). It makes exposing local service over HTTPS trivial. It's been used heavily in most of my engineering orgs.

Ngrok: This provides about 2hours on the free account but requires account registration and adding your authtoken, and starting it is as simple as running ngrok http 8080

In the new style, when the tag is longer than 20 characters, an end of tag string is appended to the tag given by the string constant TAGEND, that is, two line feeds '\n\n'. When the tag is less than 20 characters then the tag is padded with pipes "|" out to 20 characters as before. When the tag is exactly 20 characters no padded is done. source: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/utils/event.py

https://github.com/saltstack/salt https://github.com/chocolatey/choco https://github.com/nextcloud https://github.com/authelia/authelia https://github.com/grafana/grafana

SaltStack

One thing that really irks me about Salt, though, is that they are very slow to fix bugs. My Salt states are littered with workarounds for bugs that have been open for multiple years. Even in basic things, like ssh authorized_keys management. Other than bug velocity, though, I've been pretty pleased with Salt.

Here are several related GitHub issues: - https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/54791 - https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/57541 - https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/16089

For clarity, here's the issue: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/64111

Nightly builds on supported branches & master running the full test suite, producing fully tested builds. https://github.com/saltstack/salt/actions/workflows/nightly.yml

It's definitely some sort of AI script. Not this exactly, but something working off Python or scripts of thar nature. https://github.com/saltstack/salt