Run standalone
Spin up any tool with Docker — its own Postgres, Redis, and local login. Useful on day one, no mothership required.
Self-hosted IT tools that grow together.
A federated suite of help-desk and fleet tools for small businesses and schools — a cheap, friendly alternative to PRTG, SolarWinds, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, and Zendesk. Run each tool alone, or plant them under Orchard and they integrate.
How it works
Every tool is built to stand alone. Orchard is optional — but when you install tools as add-ons, shared SSO and an event bus stitch them into one workflow.
Or plant under Orchard
Orchard’s add-on manager installs tools as containers, wires shared SSO, and puts a unified dashboard on top.
Events become tickets
A printer fault, offline host, or failed patch emits on the bus. CareGrove can auto-open (and auto-close) the help-desk ticket.
The suite
Nine products — platform, framework, help desk, monitoring, inventory, firewall workflow, printers, macOS patching, and a native container manager. Status is honest: built means usable today; planned means designed, not shipped.
Platform
Orchard
The mothership: unified dashboard, add-on manager that installs tools as containers, and the suite’s SSO identity provider.
Trellis
Shared framework every web tool grows on — auth/RBAC, configure-once notifications, watermelon theme, event bus, health checks, and Orchard registration.
CareGrove
Help desk and ticketing — and the integration hub. Subscribes to suite events and turns alerts into tickets via a rule engine.
Operations
VineWatch
Infrastructure monitoring — up/down, SNMP, ping, ports, and bandwidth, in a PRTG-style dashboard that can open CareGrove tickets.
SeedSilo
Asset and inventory management for hardware, software, and licenses — the system of record other tools link back to.
FenceLine
Firewall and port change-management: request → review → implement, with an audit trail for what crossed the perimeter.
Endpoints & devices
InkWarden
SNMP printer-fleet monitoring — toner, trays, page counts, and fault alerts, with CareGrove tickets on critical events.
RindPatch
Self-hosted macOS patch management and software distribution — catalogue, recipes, and a thin endpoint installer.
Flotilla
Native macOS menu-bar manager for Apple container containers on this Mac and across a small fleet.
One stack, one look
Web tools share Django + HTMX, Postgres, Celery + Redis, and Docker. Trellis keeps auth, theme, and the event bus consistent. Flotilla is the exception: a Swift menu-bar app for local containers.
- Django + HTMX
- Postgres
- Celery + Redis
- Docker
- Swift / SwiftUI (Flotilla)