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About & roadmap

Vitrinode is a Linux infrastructure management platform in active development by Vitrinode Ltd. It brings host inventory, device identity, remote operations and infrastructure visibility into one management plane. The project began on a personal Proxmox/Linux estate, with least privilege and auditability guiding its design.

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Company

Vitrinode Ltd is a private company limited by shares, incorporated on .

Registered name
Vitrinode Ltd
Company number
17494950 — Companies House
Registered in
England and Wales
Registered office
Barnsley, England

Why the name Vitrinode?

Vitri- draws on vitreous and vitrine — glass, clarity and visibility. A vitrine is a glass-fronted display cabinet — something whose purpose is to make what it contains visible while keeping it contained and ordered. Node is the practical half of Vitrinode — the hosts, virtual machines, containers and other infrastructure nodes the platform is intended to make visible.

There is also a South Yorkshire layer to the name. Vitrinite and vitrinoid are coal-related terms associated with a glassy lustre, tying neatly back to vitri- while referencing the project's origins in Barnsley and the wider South Yorkshire coalfield.

Development status

Status reviewed: .

Stage
In active development.
Verification
Exercised against real personal Debian, Ubuntu and Proxmox infrastructure — not fixtures alone.
Source
Currently private.
Availability
No general availability date has been set.

Roadmap

Milestones are driven by implementation and verification. No release dates have been set.

Now

  • Persistent CA storage and hardware acceptance for Vitrinode-HSM

Next

  • HSM provisioning workflow and server integration for short-lived SSH certificates

Later

  • Change/diff timeline and full inventory rendered in the UI
  • VMware (vSphere/ESXi) correlation, following the Proxmox model
  • Production HSM key protection, trusted time, audit and sealing

Recent development

Most recent first.

  1. — Vitrinode Ltd incorporated.
  2. September 2026 — persistent HSM CA storage in development. Keystore codec validation is complete; flash storage and boot-time CA loading are undergoing hardware acceptance.
  3. September 2026 — HSM Phase 2 complete. A certificate issued by the physical RP2350 device successfully authenticated against stock OpenSSH. Server integration remains planned.
  4. Phase 7 complete — device attestation with vTPM quotes and an explicit software-evidence fallback, verified on real TPM hardware
  5. Phase 6 complete — read-only Proxmox VE inventory, device correlation and live cluster verification
  6. Phase 5 complete — signed, replay-protected remote jobs and privileged executor separation
  7. Phase 4 complete — full inventory collection (system, storage, network, systemd, APT, Docker)
  8. Phase 3 complete — WebAuthn/FIDO2 authentication and step-up
  9. Phase 2 complete — secure device provisioning, mutual TLS, certificate revocation
  10. Phase 1 complete — server/agent heartbeat, host inventory UI
  11. Project bootstrap — repository structure, architecture and threat-model documentation

Contact

For questions about Vitrinode — including as a prospective adopter or collaborator.

[email protected] Replies may take a few days.