Purpose
The operations platform needed a consistent way to verify client state without giving every consumer direct access to the host or to low-level BPF tooling. The API translated narrowly scoped HTTP requests into lookups against the relevant map.
Access and routes
Clients authenticated with an API key. Separate routes exposed the permitted lookup behavior for specific maps, keeping internal data access explicit and easier to audit.
Result
The service provided a small boundary between infrastructure state and the systems that needed to read it. It made routine verification faster while limiting how much of the firewall host was exposed.