Where infrastructure meets intelligence.
Gark Tech is a learning lab exploring secure cloud infrastructure, automation and applied AI, and the foundation for a future solutions assistant.
A reference architecture
The pattern the lab is built on: layered, least-privilege and recoverable. Shown as a design, not a live system map.
Secure access
Encrypted end to end, identity-first
Protection layer
DNS, TLS, web application firewall, bot defence
Reverse proxy
Routing, limits, hardened entry point
Containerised services
Isolated, reproducible workloads
Private data tier
Never exposed, least-privilege access
Backup & recovery
Off-site copies, regularly restore-tested
Observability
Metrics, logs, traces and alerting in one view
AI operations
Models that read signals and assist engineers
Applied AI, grounded in operations
The AI track of the lab: practical machine learning for IT and business operations, always with a human in the loop.
Assistants & RAG
Language models answering from your own documents, runbooks and tickets, with sources cited.
Anomaly detection
Learning normal behaviour from network and server telemetry to flag problems early.
Workflow automation
AI agents that triage requests, draft responses and prepare changes for human approval.
Tech stack
Solid: in use. Dashed: learning next.
Networking
Systems & Cloud
Security
AI & Data
Lab projects
Each comes with a write-up: the problem, the design and the lessons learned.
Hardened cloud platform
A business application hosted behind layered edge protection.
- Layered edge and origin protection
- Least-privilege service identities
- Automated, restore-tested backups
SLA-driven service desk
Requests routed and escalated automatically, with clear status for users.
- Workload-based assignment
- Timed multi-level escalation
- Role-scoped workspaces
AI ticket triage
A model that classifies requests and suggests fixes from past resolutions.
- Retrieval over solved tickets
- Confidence scores, human approval
- Measured against manual triage
Where the lab is heading
From a single hardened server to automated, observable, zero-trust infrastructure.
Foundation
- ✓Cloud host and domain
- ✓Edge TLS and WAF
- ✓Off-site backups
Business platform
- ✓ERP and service desk
- ✓SLA automation
- ✓Role-based access
Observe & automate
- ○Metrics and dashboards
- ○Infrastructure as code
- ○CI/CD pipeline
Zero trust & AI
- ○No inbound ports
- ○SIEM and alerting
- ○AI ops assistant
Gark Tech Solution Assistant
The long-term goal of this lab: an AI-powered assistant that helps teams plan, secure and run their technology, combining infrastructure know-how with machine learning.
A concept in development. Not a commercial offering.
Suggested checks
1 · Client count vs pool size
2 · Channel utilisation by hour
3 · AP event log around drop times
Follow the build.
Questions about the lab, or want to swap notes on infrastructure and AI? Get in touch.