Expose localhost to the world with serveo.net
· #tooling#networking#ssh
Sometimes you have a service running on localhost and you need to expose it to the world right now for some quick experiment. Google turned up a few tools, and the one I picked was serveo.net.
It’s free, and the nice part is that the client is just plain old ssh:
ssh -R 80:localhost:3000 serveo.netThat’s all it takes to put your PoC online.
You can also use the service to:
- use it as an SSH jump host to your own machine,
- forward any TCP protocol,
- pair it with
autosshto automatically re-establish a dropped connection.
It even provides a console GUI for managing the connection. The author compares it to ngrok and OpenSSH, and offers a free on-premise option with some limitations (presumably that’s where the monetization is, since the SaaS version is free).
Originally posted on my Telegram channel Ламповый ТехДир.