Agency Edge & Observability Platform
Tunnel, Proxy, Enforcement, TLS, and Monitoring Operations
Designed an agency edge and observability platform that combines Cloudflare Tunnel ingress, Traefik routing, CrowdSec-backed enforcement, TLS automation, GitLab CI validation, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring into a documented, source-controlled operating model.
Client
The Conrad Group
Completion
4 months
Category
Cloud & Platform Integration
Situation
The agency needed a repeatable edge platform for routing private applications securely while keeping operational visibility, TLS management, and enforcement behavior documented. Ad hoc proxy configuration would have made changes risky and difficult to audit.
Task
Create a source-controlled edge and observability foundation that can route services, apply middleware and enforcement controls, manage TLS, and expose monitoring signals without leaking sensitive infrastructure details.
Action
→Codified Cloudflare Tunnel ingress, Traefik routing, middleware behavior, CrowdSec-backed enforcement, Let's Encrypt DNS-01 TLS automation, and GitLab CI make validate gates
→Documented ADRs, runbooks, validation scripts, systemd units, and operational workflows in edge-platform repo for safer platform changes
→Integrated Prometheus, Grafana, Blackbox probes, SLO alerting, and monitoring change runbooks into the platform story
→Linked edge and observability concerns so routing changes can be reasoned about alongside service health and executive KPI views
Results
✓Established a repeatable operating model for secure ingress, routing, enforcement, TLS, and monitoring
✓Improved rollback and review readiness by moving edge configuration and runbooks into source control
✓Connected platform availability signals to dashboards and probes without exposing private topology
✓Demonstrated senior platform ownership across security, reliability, and operations