I did something sort of similar with Live CD images for booting hardware not on a PXE network in Cobbler. It could also register machines seen then first time

I did something sort of similar with Live CD images for booting hardware not on a PXE network in Cobbler. It could also register machines seen then first time by making system records for them. https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler What is interesting in this article in particular are the auto-firmware upgrade state transitions, which seem pretty neat. The chat bot is I guess neat, but if a lot of people are using the cloud that could be a hard way to get status.