diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5226ac6..7cd8204 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -993,8 +993,19 @@ name = "hostd"
 version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "ipc",
+ "clap",
+ "dropshot",
+ "http",
+ "schemars",
+ "serde",
+ "slog",
+ "slog-async",
+ "sqlx",
  "systemd-ipc",
+ "tokio",
+ "trace-request",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-slog",
  "varlink",
 ]
 
diff --git a/hostd/Cargo.toml b/hostd/Cargo.toml
index 4a8dee3..5eab87f 100644
--- a/hostd/Cargo.toml
+++ b/hostd/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@ edition.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow.workspace = true
+tokio.workspace = true
+sqlx = { version = "0.8.3", default-features = false, features = [
+    "macros", "migrate", "postgres", "runtime-tokio", "tls-rustls", "time", "uuid"
+  ] }
 varlink = "11.0.1"
-ipc = { path = "../ipc" }
 systemd-ipc = { path = "../systemd-ipc" }
+dropshot.workspace = true
+clap.workspace = true
+slog.workspace = true
+slog-async.workspace = true
+tracing-slog.workspace = true
+tracing.workspace = true
+trace-request = { path = "../trace-request" }
+schemars.workspace = true
+serde.workspace = true
+http.workspace = true
diff --git a/hostd/src/api.rs b/hostd/src/api.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..edc0fcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hostd/src/api.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+use anyhow::Result;
+use dropshot::ApiDescription;
+
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use crate::context::ControllerContext;
+use crate::machine;
+
+type ControllerApiDescription = ApiDescription<Arc<ControllerContext>>;
+
+pub fn api() -> Result<ControllerApiDescription> {
+    let mut api = ControllerApiDescription::new();
+    api.register(machine::describe)?;
+    Ok(api)
+}
diff --git a/hostd/src/bin/hostd-controller.rs b/hostd/src/bin/hostd-controller.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6a7eb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hostd/src/bin/hostd-controller.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
+
+use clap::Parser;
+use dropshot::{ConfigDropshot, ServerBuilder};
+use slog::Drain;
+use sqlx::PgPool;
+use std::net::SocketAddr;
+use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use tracing_slog::TracingSlogDrain;
+
+use hostd::api;
+use hostd::context::ControllerContext;
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
+#[command(version, about, long_about = None)]
+struct Cli {
+    #[arg(
+        long = "telemetry-otlp-endpoint",
+        default_value = "http://localhost:4317",
+        env = "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT"
+    )]
+    otlp_endpoint: Option<String>,
+
+    #[arg(
+        long = "log-stderr",
+        short = 'v',
+        default_value = "false",
+        env = "LOG_TO_STDERR"
+    )]
+    log_stderr: bool,
+
+    #[arg(
+        long = "listen-address",
+        default_value = "0.0.0.0:9478",
+        env = "LISTEN_ADDRESS"
+    )]
+    listen_address: String,
+
+    #[arg(
+        long = "database-url",
+        default_value = "postgresql://localhost/patagia",
+        env = "DATABASE_URL"
+    )]
+    database_url: Option<String>,
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    let args = Cli::parse();
+
+    let config = ConfigDropshot {
+        bind_address: SocketAddr::from_str(&args.listen_address).unwrap(),
+        ..Default::default()
+    };
+
+    let logger = {
+        let level_drain = slog::LevelFilter(TracingSlogDrain, slog::Level::Debug).fuse();
+        let async_drain = slog_async::Async::new(level_drain).build().fuse();
+        slog::Logger::root(async_drain, slog::o!())
+    };
+
+    // let database_url = args.database_url.unwrap();
+    // dont connect to database pass null
+    // let pg = PgPool::connect(&database_url).await?;
+
+    // sqlx::migrate!().run(&pg).await?;
+
+    let ctx = ControllerContext::new();
+
+    let api = api::api()?;
+
+    ServerBuilder::new(api, Arc::new(ctx), logger)
+        .config(config)
+        .start()
+        .map_err(|e| anyhow!("Error starting server: {:?}", e))?
+        .await
+        .map_err(|e| anyhow!(e))
+}
diff --git a/hostd/src/context.rs b/hostd/src/context.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e50d955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hostd/src/context.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// use sqlx::postgres::PgPool;
+
+pub struct ControllerContext {
+    // pub pg_pool: PgPool,
+}
+
+impl ControllerContext {
+    pub fn new() -> ControllerContext {
+        ControllerContext {}
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hostd/src/lib.rs b/hostd/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94f3a31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hostd/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pub mod api;
+pub mod context;
+pub mod machine;
diff --git a/hostd/src/machine.rs b/hostd/src/machine.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39d8437
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hostd/src/machine.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+use dropshot::{endpoint, HttpError, HttpResponseOk, RequestContext};
+use schemars::JsonSchema;
+use serde::Serialize;
+use trace_request::trace_request;
+
+use systemd_ipc::addrs::SYSTEMD_HOSTNAME;
+use systemd_ipc::io_systemd_hostname::{self, VarlinkClientInterface};
+
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use std::thread;
+
+use crate::context::ControllerContext;
+
+/// Version and build information
+#[derive(Serialize, JsonSchema)]
+struct MachineInfo {
+    machine_id: String,
+}
+
+/// Fetch machine id
+#[endpoint {
+    method = GET,
+    path = "/machine_id",
+}]
+#[trace_request]
+pub async fn describe(
+    rqctx: RequestContext<Arc<ControllerContext>>,
+) -> Result<HttpResponseOk<MachineInfo>, HttpError> {
+    // Connect to systemd.Hostname
+    // Make it tokio task blocking
+    tokio::task::block_in_place(move || {
+        let conn = varlink::Connection::with_address(SYSTEMD_HOSTNAME).unwrap();
+        let mut sd = io_systemd_hostname::VarlinkClient::new(conn);
+        let machine_id = sd.describe().call().unwrap().MachineID;
+
+        tracing::info_span!("Hello, span hostd!");
+
+        tracing::info!(monotonic_counter.version_calls = 1);
+
+        let machine_info = MachineInfo { machine_id };
+        thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(10000));
+
+        Ok(HttpResponseOk(machine_info))
+    })
+}
diff --git a/hostd/src/main.rs b/hostd/src/main.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index f5d0bea..0000000
--- a/hostd/src/main.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-use anyhow::Result;
-
-use ipc::io_patagia_hostd;
-use systemd_ipc::addrs::SYSTEMD_HOSTNAME;
-use systemd_ipc::io_systemd_hostname::{self, VarlinkClientInterface};
-
-struct PatagiaHostd;
-
-impl io_patagia_hostd::VarlinkInterface for PatagiaHostd {
-    fn apply(
-        &self,
-        call: &mut dyn io_patagia_hostd::Call_Apply,
-        machine: io_patagia_hostd::Machine,
-    ) -> varlink::Result<()> {
-        // FIXME: Do something useful
-        println!("Applying machine config: {:#?}", machine);
-        call.reply()
-    }
-
-    fn describe(&self, call: &mut dyn io_patagia_hostd::Call_Describe) -> varlink::Result<()> {
-        // Connect to systemd.Hostname
-        let conn = varlink::Connection::with_address(SYSTEMD_HOSTNAME).unwrap();
-        let mut sd = io_systemd_hostname::VarlinkClient::new(conn);
-
-        let machine = io_patagia_hostd::Machine {
-            machineId: sd.describe().call().unwrap().MachineID,
-            nodeLabels: None,
-            patagiaAgent: None,
-        };
-        call.reply(machine)
-    }
-}
-
-fn main() -> Result<()> {
-    let hostd = PatagiaHostd;
-    let hostd_iface = io_patagia_hostd::new(Box::new(hostd));
-
-    let svc = varlink::VarlinkService::new(
-        "io.patagia.hostd",
-        "Host controller for patagia",
-        "0.1",
-        "https://patagia.dev",
-        vec![Box::new(hostd_iface)],
-    );
-
-    let addr = format!("unix:{}/{}", env!("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"), "io.patagia.hostd");
-
-    println!("Varlink Listening on {}", addr);
-
-    varlink::listen(
-        svc,
-        &addr,
-        &varlink::ListenConfig {
-            ..Default::default()
-        },
-    )?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
diff --git a/ipc/.gitignore b/ipc/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index ea8c4bf..0000000
--- a/ipc/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/target
diff --git a/ipc/Cargo.toml b/ipc/Cargo.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index b26a1f5..0000000
--- a/ipc/Cargo.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-[package]
-name = "ipc"
-version.workspace = true
-edition.workspace = true
-
-[dependencies]
-serde.workspace = true
-serde_derive = "1.0.217"
-serde_json = "1.0.135"
-varlink = "11.0.1"
-
-[build-dependencies]
-varlink_generator = "10.1.0"
-walkdir = "2.5.0"
-
-[package.metadata.cargo-machete]
-ignored = ["serde"]
diff --git a/ipc/build.rs b/ipc/build.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index fcec0de..0000000
--- a/ipc/build.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-extern crate varlink_generator;
-
-use walkdir::WalkDir;
-
-fn main() {
-    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/*.varlink");
-    for entry in WalkDir::new("src").into_iter().filter_map(|e| e.ok()) {
-        if entry.file_name().to_str().unwrap().ends_with(".varlink") {
-            varlink_generator::cargo_build_tosource(&entry.path().display().to_string(), true);
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/ipc/src/io.patagia.hostd.varlink b/ipc/src/io.patagia.hostd.varlink
deleted file mode 100644
index ea34a12..0000000
--- a/ipc/src/io.patagia.hostd.varlink
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-interface io.patagia.hostd
-
-type Label (
-  key: string,
-  value: string
-)
-
-type PatagiaAgentConfig (
-  url: ?string
-)
-
-type Machine(
-  machineId: string,
-  nodeLabels: ?[]Label,
-  patagiaAgent: ?PatagiaAgentConfig
-)
-
-method Describe() -> (
-  machine: Machine
-)
-
-method Apply(
-  machine: Machine
-) -> ()
-
-error InvalidMachineConfig()
diff --git a/ipc/src/io_patagia_hostd.rs b/ipc/src/io_patagia_hostd.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 19d0df5..0000000
--- a/ipc/src/io_patagia_hostd.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,263 +0,0 @@
-#![doc = "This file was automatically generated by the varlink rust generator"]
-#![allow(non_camel_case_types)]
-#![allow(non_snake_case)]
-use serde_derive::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use std::io::BufRead;
-use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
-use varlink::{self, CallTrait};
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Debug)]
-#[allow(clippy::enum_variant_names)]
-pub enum ErrorKind {
-    Varlink_Error,
-    VarlinkReply_Error,
-    InvalidMachineConfig(Option<InvalidMachineConfig_Args>),
-}
-impl ::std::fmt::Display for ErrorKind {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut ::std::fmt::Formatter) -> ::std::fmt::Result {
-        match self {
-            ErrorKind::Varlink_Error => write!(f, "Varlink Error"),
-            ErrorKind::VarlinkReply_Error => write!(f, "Varlink error reply"),
-            ErrorKind::InvalidMachineConfig(v) => {
-                write!(f, "io.patagia.hostd.InvalidMachineConfig: {:#?}", v)
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-pub struct Error(
-    pub ErrorKind,
-    pub Option<Box<dyn std::error::Error + 'static + Send + Sync>>,
-    pub Option<&'static str>,
-);
-impl Error {
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    pub fn kind(&self) -> &ErrorKind {
-        &self.0
-    }
-}
-impl From<ErrorKind> for Error {
-    fn from(e: ErrorKind) -> Self {
-        Error(e, None, None)
-    }
-}
-impl std::error::Error for Error {
-    fn source(&self) -> Option<&(dyn std::error::Error + 'static)> {
-        self.1
-            .as_ref()
-            .map(|e| e.as_ref() as &(dyn std::error::Error + 'static))
-    }
-}
-impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        std::fmt::Display::fmt(&self.0, f)
-    }
-}
-impl std::fmt::Debug for Error {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        use std::error::Error as StdError;
-        if let Some(ref o) = self.2 {
-            std::fmt::Display::fmt(o, f)?;
-        }
-        std::fmt::Debug::fmt(&self.0, f)?;
-        if let Some(e) = self.source() {
-            std::fmt::Display::fmt("\nCaused by:\n", f)?;
-            std::fmt::Debug::fmt(&e, f)?;
-        }
-        Ok(())
-    }
-}
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, Error>;
-impl From<varlink::Error> for Error {
-    fn from(e: varlink::Error) -> Self {
-        match e.kind() {
-            varlink::ErrorKind::VarlinkErrorReply(r) => Error(
-                ErrorKind::from(r),
-                Some(Box::from(e)),
-                Some(concat!(file!(), ":", line!(), ": ")),
-            ),
-            _ => Error(
-                ErrorKind::Varlink_Error,
-                Some(Box::from(e)),
-                Some(concat!(file!(), ":", line!(), ": ")),
-            ),
-        }
-    }
-}
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-impl Error {
-    pub fn source_varlink_kind(&self) -> Option<&varlink::ErrorKind> {
-        use std::error::Error as StdError;
-        let mut s: &dyn StdError = self;
-        while let Some(c) = s.source() {
-            let k = self
-                .source()
-                .and_then(|e| e.downcast_ref::<varlink::Error>())
-                .map(|e| e.kind());
-            if k.is_some() {
-                return k;
-            }
-            s = c;
-        }
-        None
-    }
-}
-impl From<&varlink::Reply> for ErrorKind {
-    #[allow(unused_variables)]
-    fn from(e: &varlink::Reply) -> Self {
-        match e {
-            varlink::Reply {
-                error: Some(ref t), ..
-            } if t == "io.patagia.hostd.InvalidMachineConfig" => match e {
-                varlink::Reply {
-                    parameters: Some(p),
-                    ..
-                } => match serde_json::from_value(p.clone()) {
-                    Ok(v) => ErrorKind::InvalidMachineConfig(v),
-                    Err(_) => ErrorKind::InvalidMachineConfig(None),
-                },
-                _ => ErrorKind::InvalidMachineConfig(None),
-            },
-            _ => ErrorKind::VarlinkReply_Error,
-        }
-    }
-}
-pub trait VarlinkCallError: varlink::CallTrait {
-    fn reply_invalid_machine_config(&mut self) -> varlink::Result<()> {
-        self.reply_struct(varlink::Reply::error(
-            "io.patagia.hostd.InvalidMachineConfig",
-            None,
-        ))
-    }
-}
-impl<'a> VarlinkCallError for varlink::Call<'a> {}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct r#Label {
-    pub r#key: String,
-    pub r#value: String,
-}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct r#Machine {
-    pub r#machineId: String,
-    pub r#nodeLabels: Option<Vec<Label>>,
-    pub r#patagiaAgent: Option<PatagiaAgentConfig>,
-}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct r#PatagiaAgentConfig {
-    pub r#url: Option<String>,
-}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct InvalidMachineConfig_Args {}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct Apply_Reply {}
-impl varlink::VarlinkReply for Apply_Reply {}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct Apply_Args {
-    pub r#machine: Machine,
-}
-pub trait Call_Apply: VarlinkCallError {
-    fn reply(&mut self) -> varlink::Result<()> {
-        self.reply_struct(varlink::Reply::parameters(None))
-    }
-}
-impl<'a> Call_Apply for varlink::Call<'a> {}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct Describe_Reply {
-    pub r#machine: Machine,
-}
-impl varlink::VarlinkReply for Describe_Reply {}
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
-pub struct Describe_Args {}
-pub trait Call_Describe: VarlinkCallError {
-    fn reply(&mut self, r#machine: Machine) -> varlink::Result<()> {
-        self.reply_struct(Describe_Reply { r#machine }.into())
-    }
-}
-impl<'a> Call_Describe for varlink::Call<'a> {}
-pub trait VarlinkInterface {
-    fn apply(&self, call: &mut dyn Call_Apply, r#machine: Machine) -> varlink::Result<()>;
-    fn describe(&self, call: &mut dyn Call_Describe) -> varlink::Result<()>;
-    fn call_upgraded(
-        &self,
-        _call: &mut varlink::Call,
-        _bufreader: &mut dyn BufRead,
-    ) -> varlink::Result<Vec<u8>> {
-        Ok(Vec::new())
-    }
-}
-pub trait VarlinkClientInterface {
-    fn apply(&mut self, r#machine: Machine) -> varlink::MethodCall<Apply_Args, Apply_Reply, Error>;
-    fn describe(&mut self) -> varlink::MethodCall<Describe_Args, Describe_Reply, Error>;
-}
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub struct VarlinkClient {
-    connection: Arc<RwLock<varlink::Connection>>,
-}
-impl VarlinkClient {
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    pub fn new(connection: Arc<RwLock<varlink::Connection>>) -> Self {
-        VarlinkClient { connection }
-    }
-}
-impl VarlinkClientInterface for VarlinkClient {
-    fn apply(&mut self, r#machine: Machine) -> varlink::MethodCall<Apply_Args, Apply_Reply, Error> {
-        varlink::MethodCall::<Apply_Args, Apply_Reply, Error>::new(
-            self.connection.clone(),
-            "io.patagia.hostd.Apply",
-            Apply_Args { r#machine },
-        )
-    }
-    fn describe(&mut self) -> varlink::MethodCall<Describe_Args, Describe_Reply, Error> {
-        varlink::MethodCall::<Describe_Args, Describe_Reply, Error>::new(
-            self.connection.clone(),
-            "io.patagia.hostd.Describe",
-            Describe_Args {},
-        )
-    }
-}
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub struct VarlinkInterfaceProxy {
-    inner: Box<dyn VarlinkInterface + Send + Sync>,
-}
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub fn new(inner: Box<dyn VarlinkInterface + Send + Sync>) -> VarlinkInterfaceProxy {
-    VarlinkInterfaceProxy { inner }
-}
-impl varlink::Interface for VarlinkInterfaceProxy {
-    fn get_description(&self) -> &'static str {
-        "interface io.patagia.hostd\n\ntype Label (\n  key: string,\n  value: string\n)\n\ntype PatagiaAgentConfig (\n  url: ?string\n)\n\ntype Machine(\n  machineId: string,\n  nodeLabels: ?[]Label,\n  patagiaAgent: ?PatagiaAgentConfig\n)\n\nmethod Describe() -> (\n  machine: Machine\n)\n\nmethod Apply(\n  machine: Machine\n) -> ()\n\nerror InvalidMachineConfig()\n"
-    }
-    fn get_name(&self) -> &'static str {
-        "io.patagia.hostd"
-    }
-    fn call_upgraded(
-        &self,
-        call: &mut varlink::Call,
-        bufreader: &mut dyn BufRead,
-    ) -> varlink::Result<Vec<u8>> {
-        self.inner.call_upgraded(call, bufreader)
-    }
-    fn call(&self, call: &mut varlink::Call) -> varlink::Result<()> {
-        let req = call.request.unwrap();
-        match req.method.as_ref() {
-            "io.patagia.hostd.Apply" => {
-                if let Some(args) = req.parameters.clone() {
-                    let args: Apply_Args = match serde_json::from_value(args) {
-                        Ok(v) => v,
-                        Err(e) => {
-                            let es = format!("{}", e);
-                            let _ = call.reply_invalid_parameter(es.clone());
-                            return Err(varlink::context!(varlink::ErrorKind::SerdeJsonDe(es)));
-                        }
-                    };
-                    self.inner
-                        .apply(call as &mut dyn Call_Apply, args.r#machine)
-                } else {
-                    call.reply_invalid_parameter("parameters".into())
-                }
-            }
-            "io.patagia.hostd.Describe" => self.inner.describe(call as &mut dyn Call_Describe),
-            m => call.reply_method_not_found(String::from(m)),
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/ipc/src/lib.rs b/ipc/src/lib.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 02666ab..0000000
--- a/ipc/src/lib.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-pub mod io_patagia_hostd;