Self-hosted Ngrok

Published at March 23, 2020 ·  7 min read

To the great credit of the Ngrok author, people on the Internet use the term Ngrok to suggest a tooling need - Application Tunneling. Packetriot provides managed service but we also build and publish Spokes, our self-managed server. So… Spokes is really a self-hosted Packetriot :) We’ve written Spokes to give users the ability to deploy and manage your own Application Tunneling service. It provides all the features of our managed edge-server but without our business or metering logic....

Access Plex From Anywhere

Published at January 19, 2020 ·  7 min read

I recently helped a user with setting up some traffic rules to access Plex remotely. While we worked together on setting it up he explained that a lot of Plex users want to do the same but there’s all kinds of barriers to setting it up. So I thought, let’s write a tutorial. Plex manages your music, movies, photos and media. TLDR; Already a Packetriot and Plex ninja?...

Migrating from Serveo to Packetriot

Published at August 28, 2019 ·  4 min read

Serveo is another tool that enables you to expose a local server to the Internet. It’s been freely available for several years and it uses a clever method of using the ssh client available on Linux/Unix distributions to establish a reverse tunnel. There’s no software or client to install, brilliant. Illustration of how serveo works, source: serveo.net You might be considering using an alternative to Serveo, like Packetriot, because you need more features than what’s available with the ssh client....

Setup Packetriot using Docker on Linux/Unix

Published at August 3, 2019 ·  9 min read

Docker makes deploying applications and services extremely easy. With all of the assets, executables and runtime that an application requires in the container image, you no longer need to worry about dependencies. In addition, since Docker allows you mount paths from your hosts’ file-system inside a container, you can move a container easily between computers or upgrade to newer images. Docker makes deploying applications easy. In many of our tutorials we use Docker to deploy applications because the setup is extremely easy and we can spend more time discussing how to setup your tunnel to support that service....