Provisioning dpu management operating systems

A system, comprising:

• at least one computing device comprising at least one processor;
• and
• non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions executable by at least one processor to cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising
• launching, by a management hypervisor installer executed on a host device, a server component that provides, at a particular uniform resource identifier (URI) accessible over a network internal to the host device, a management OS installer image for a data processing unit (DPU) device physically installed to the host device;
• transmitting, by the management hypervisor installer, the particular URI to a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the host device, wherein the BMC transfers the DPU management OS installer image to the DPU device;
• creating, by the DPU device, a volatile memory based virtual disk using the DPU management OS installer image;
• and
• installing, from the DPU management OS installer, a DPU management operating system to a nonvolatile memory of the DPU device.

A method, comprising:

• launching, by a management hypervisor installer executed on a host device, a server component that provides, at a particular uniform resource identifier (URI) accessible over a network internal to the host device, a management OS installer image for a data processing unit (DPU) device physically installed to the host device;
• transmitting, by the management hypervisor installer, the particular URI to a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the host device, wherein the BMC transfers the DPU management OS installer image to the DPU device;
• creating, by the DPU device, a volatile memory based virtual disk using the DPU management OS installer image;
• and
• installing, from the DPU management OS installer, a DPU management operating system to a nonvolatile memory of the DPU device.