Automatic provisioning and onboarding of offline or disconnected machines

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing a data processing system, the operations comprising:

• receiving, by a bundling service, a request from a requestor to obtain an onboarding payload for the data processing system while the data processing system is unable to independently obtain the onboarding payload;
• based on the request:
• obtaining, by the bundling service, an ownership voucher that delegates authority over the data processing system to the requestor;
• obtaining, by the bundling service, access credentials for a first domain to which the data processing system will be deployed and a software loadout for the data processing system;
• obtaining, by the bundling service, an application image based on the software loadout;
• obtaining, by the bundling service, the onboarding payload using the ownership voucher, the access credentials, the software loadout, and the application image;
• and
• uploading, by the bundling service, a copy of the onboarding payload onto an intermediary device to complete an onboarding of the data processing system, wherein the onboarding of the data processing system is completed by, at least:
• modifying a management agent to identify a copy of the application image stored in the onboarding payload rather than a location from which the application image was obtained prior to obtaining the onboarding payload,
• wherein the data processing system is connected to the intermediary device to initiate the onboarding of the data processing system to the first domain and the onboarding of the data processing system is completed using the onboarding payload on the intermediary device.

A first data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing a second data processing system, the operations comprising:
• receiving, by a bundling service, a request from a requestor to obtain an onboarding payload for the second data processing system while the second data processing system is unable to independently obtain the onboarding payload;
• based on the request:
• obtaining, by the bundling service, an ownership voucher that delegates authority over the second data processing system to the requestor;
• obtaining, by the bundling service, access credentials for a first domain to which the second data processing system will be deployed and a software loadout for the second data processing system;
• obtaining, by the bundling service, an application image based on the software loadout;
• obtaining, by the bundling service, the onboarding payload using the ownership voucher, the access credentials, the software loadout, and the application image;
• and
• uploading, by the bundling service, a copy of the onboarding payload onto an intermediary device to complete an onboarding of the second data processing system, wherein the onboarding of the second data processing system is completed by, at least:
• modifying a management agent to identify a copy of the application image stored in the onboarding payload rather than a location from which the application image was obtained prior to obtaining the onboarding payload,
• wherein the second data processing system is connected to the intermediary device to initiate the onboarding of the second data processing system to the first domain and the onboarding of the second data processing system is completed using the onboarding payload on the intermediary device.