ngrok reduces the complexity of providing public ingress to a HashiCorp Consul service mesh running in Kubernetes by providing all necessary aspects of ingress in a single controller, allowing for secure and consistent connectivity to a cluster while also taking care of load balancing and authentication. The ngrok Kubernetes Operator provides this functionality, and can be used with Helm as a managed chart, making it easy to deploy and manage. To use the operator, pod annotations are added to enable Consul Connect sidecar injection and exclude outbound traffic from the Consul mesh, and an Ingress definition is created to specify rules for providing ingress to services. The operator initiates a secure and persistent outbound TLS connection to ngrok's Cloud Edge platform, allowing for easy deployment of Kubernetes clusters in any environment without changing network settings.