New devices could come online in a separate fleet lobby where they can later be assigned and moved to a fleet. Each organization should have a lobby by default.
The lobby could have following features:
- Add device (Download OS image)
- Identify (LED blinking)
- Assign to fleet
- Forget (e.g. device shuts down)
- Details (Added on dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm, online status, IP, MAC, …)
- Set device name
Devices in the lobby should not count as active on invoices.
This would enable faster deployments by preflashing devices with a base balenaOS and later assigning it to the appropriate fleet. It could also prevent high costs if an image or flashed drive gets in the wrong hands.