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How to expose your local server to Internet?

As a developer, we always have a wish to expose our work to internet, so that we can show those to our friends or teachers for testing. But, what we choose to use services of public cloud and sometimes it becomes a bit more expensive way for small projects. So, friends I have found a way to expose your localhost services to the internet without port forwarding through the NAT of your ISP. The solution is: NGROK What is ngrok? Ngrok exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels. How it works You download and run a program on your machine and provide it the port of a network service, usually a web server. It connects to the ngrok cloud service which accepts traffic on a public address and relays that traffic through to the ngrok process running on your machine and then on to the local address you specified. What it's good for Demoing web sites without deploying Building webhook consumers on your dev machine Testing m...

Docker Overview

OVERVIEW Docker is the company driving the container movement and the only container platform provider to address every application across the hybrid cloud. Today’s businesses are under pressure to digitally transform but are constrained by existing applications and infrastructure while rationalizing an increasingly diverse portfolio of clouds, datacenters and application architectures. Docker enables true independence between applications and infrastructure and developers and IT ops to unlock their potential and creates a model for better collaboration and innovation. A little intro to LXC: - LXC (LinuX Containers) is a OS-level virtualization technology that allows creation and running of multiple isolated Linux virtual environments (VE) on a single control host. These isolation levels or containers can be used to either sandbox specific applications, or to emulate an entirely new host. LXC uses Linux’s cgroups functionality, which was introduced in version 2.6.24 to...