Provisioning DPU management operating systems using firmware capsules

A system, comprising:

• at least one computing device comprising at least one processor;
• and
• a data store comprising executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one computing device to at least:
• receive, by a management hypervisor installer executed on a host device from a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the host device, a listing of at least one data processing unit (DPU) device physically installed to the host device;
• generate, by the management hypervisor installer, a preinstalled DPU management operating system image identified for a DPU device from the listing;
• wrap, by the management hypervisor installer, the preinstalled DPU management operating system image with a capsule that specifies a parameter that identifies the capsule as a DPU management operating system image capsule;
• launch, by the management hypervisor installer, a server component that provides the DPU management operating system image capsule at a particular uniform resource identifier (URI) accessible over a network internal to the host device;
• and
• transmit, by the management hypervisor installer, the particular URI to the BMC of the host device, wherein the BMC transfers the DPU management operating system image capsule to the DPU device.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a management hypervisor installer executed on a host device from a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the host device, a listing of at least one data processing unit (DPU) device physically installed to the host device;
• generating, by the management hypervisor installer, a preinstalled DPU management operating system image identified for a DPU device from the listing;
• wrapping, by the management hypervisor installer, the preinstalled DPU management operating system image with a capsule that specifies a parameter that identifies the capsule as a DPU management operating system image capsule;
• launching, by the management hypervisor installer, a server component that provides the DPU management operating system image capsule at a particular uniform resource identifier (URI) accessible over a network internal to the host device;
• and
• transmitting, by the management hypervisor installer, the particular URI to the BMC of the host device, wherein the BMC transfers the DPU management operating system image capsule to the DPU device.