diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.lock
@@ -158,12 +158,27 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "bef38d45163c2f1dde094a7dfd33ccf595c92905c8f8f4fdc18d06fb1037718a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "block-buffer"
+version = "0.10.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3078c7629b62d3f0439517fa394996acacc5cbc91c5a20d8c658e77abd503a71"
+dependencies = [
+ "generic-array",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bumpalo"
 version = "3.11.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "572f695136211188308f16ad2ca5c851a712c464060ae6974944458eb83880ba"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "byteorder"
+version = "1.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "14c189c53d098945499cdfa7ecc63567cf3886b3332b312a5b4585d8d3a6a610"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
 version = "1.2.1"
@@ -223,6 +238,25 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5827cebf4670468b8772dd191856768aedcb1b0278a04f989f7766351917b9dc"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cpufeatures"
+version = "0.2.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "280a9f2d8b3a38871a3c8a46fb80db65e5e5ed97da80c4d08bf27fb63e35e181"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "crypto-common"
+version = "0.1.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1bfb12502f3fc46cca1bb51ac28df9d618d813cdc3d2f25b9fe775a34af26bb3"
+dependencies = [
+ "generic-array",
+ "typenum",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cxx"
 version = "1.0.80"
@@ -267,6 +301,16 @@
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "digest"
+version = "0.10.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8168378f4e5023e7218c89c891c0fd8ecdb5e5e4f18cb78f38cf245dd021e76f"
+dependencies = [
+ "block-buffer",
+ "crypto-common",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "either"
 version = "1.8.0"
@@ -452,6 +496,16 @@
  "slab",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "generic-array"
+version = "0.14.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "85649ca51fd72272d7821adaf274ad91c288277713d9c18820d8499a7ff69e9a"
+dependencies = [
+ "typenum",
+ "version_check",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "getrandom"
 version = "0.2.8"
@@ -787,6 +841,16 @@
  "tempfile",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nu-ansi-term"
+version = "0.46.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "77a8165726e8236064dbb45459242600304b42a5ea24ee2948e18e023bf7ba84"
+dependencies = [
+ "overload",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-integer"
 version = "0.1.45"
@@ -877,6 +941,12 @@
  "vcpkg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "overload"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b15813163c1d831bf4a13c3610c05c0d03b39feb07f7e09fa234dac9b15aaf39"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "percent-encoding"
 version = "2.2.0"
@@ -1248,6 +1318,26 @@
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sha1"
+version = "0.10.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f04293dc80c3993519f2d7f6f511707ee7094fe0c6d3406feb330cdb3540eba3"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "cpufeatures",
+ "digest",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "sharded-slab"
+version = "0.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "900fba806f70c630b0a382d0d825e17a0f19fcd059a2ade1ff237bcddf446b31"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
 version = "0.4.7"
@@ -1257,6 +1347,12 @@
  "autocfg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "smallvec"
+version = "1.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a507befe795404456341dfab10cef66ead4c041f62b8b11bbb92bffe5d0953e0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "socket2"
 version = "0.4.7"
@@ -1333,6 +1429,16 @@
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "thread_local"
+version = "1.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3fdd6f064ccff2d6567adcb3873ca630700f00b5ad3f060c25b5dcfd9a4ce152"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "once_cell",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
 version = "0.1.44"
@@ -1430,6 +1536,18 @@
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-tungstenite"
+version = "0.18.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "54319c93411147bced34cb5609a80e0a8e44c5999c93903a81cd866630ec0bfd"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-util",
+ "log",
+ "tokio",
+ "tungstenite",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
 version = "0.7.4"
@@ -1571,6 +1689,7 @@
 checksum = "24eb03ba0eab1fd845050058ce5e616558e8f8d8fca633e6b163fe25c797213a"
 dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
+ "valuable",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1583,12 +1702,56 @@
  "tracing",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-log"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "78ddad33d2d10b1ed7eb9d1f518a5674713876e97e5bb9b7345a7984fbb4f922"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+ "log",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-subscriber"
+version = "0.3.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a6176eae26dd70d0c919749377897b54a9276bd7061339665dd68777926b5a70"
+dependencies = [
+ "nu-ansi-term",
+ "sharded-slab",
+ "smallvec",
+ "thread_local",
+ "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-log",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "try-lock"
 version = "0.2.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "59547bce71d9c38b83d9c0e92b6066c4253371f15005def0c30d9657f50c7642"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tungstenite"
+version = "0.18.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "30ee6ab729cd4cf0fd55218530c4522ed30b7b6081752839b68fcec8d0960788"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.13.1",
+ "byteorder",
+ "bytes",
+ "http",
+ "httparse",
+ "log",
+ "rand",
+ "sha1",
+ "thiserror",
+ "url",
+ "utf-8",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tunnelbroker"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -1609,11 +1772,19 @@
  "prost-types",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
+ "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tonic",
  "tonic-build",
  "tracing",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "typenum"
+version = "1.16.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "497961ef93d974e23eb6f433eb5fe1b7930b659f06d12dec6fc44a8f554c0bba"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-bidi"
 version = "0.3.8"
@@ -1658,12 +1829,30 @@
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf-8"
+version = "0.7.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "valuable"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "830b7e5d4d90034032940e4ace0d9a9a057e7a45cd94e6c007832e39edb82f6d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vcpkg"
 version = "0.2.15"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "accd4ea62f7bb7a82fe23066fb0957d48ef677f6eeb8215f372f52e48bb32426"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "version_check"
+version = "0.9.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "49874b5167b65d7193b8aba1567f5c7d93d001cafc34600cee003eda787e483f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "want"
 version = "0.3.0"
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 prost = "0.11"
 prost-types = "0.11"
 futures = "0.3"
+tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.18.0", features = [ ] }
+tracing-subscriber = "0.3.16"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 cxx-build = "1.0"
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs b/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/src/main.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,16 @@
 pub mod cxx_bridge;
 pub mod notifications;
 pub mod server;
-use anyhow::Result;
+mod websockets;
+use std::io;
+use tracing;
 
 #[tokio::main]
-async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+async fn main() -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+  let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::FmtSubscriber::new();
+  tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)
+    .expect("Unable to configure tracing");
+
   cxx_bridge::ffi::initialize();
-  server::run_grpc_server().await
+  websockets::create_server().await
 }
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/src/websockets/mod.rs b/services/tunnelbroker/src/websockets/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/src/websockets/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use std::{env, io::Error};
+
+use tokio::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
+use tracing::info;
+
+pub async fn create_server() -> Result<(), Error> {
+  let addr = env::var("COMM_TUNNELBROKER_WEBSOCKET_ADDR")
+    .unwrap_or_else(|_| "127.0.0.1:51001".to_string());
+
+  let listener = TcpListener::bind(&addr).await.expect("Failed to bind");
+  info!("Listening on: {}", addr);
+
+  while let Ok((stream, _)) = listener.accept().await {
+    tokio::spawn(accept_connection(stream));
+  }
+
+  Ok(())
+}
+
+async fn accept_connection(_stream: TcpStream) {
+  unimplemented!()
+}