User would like to use openBalena in an air-gapped (no internet) environment about open-balena HOT 5 OPEN

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[pdcastro] This issue has attached support thread https://jel.ly.fish/ce70c1de-e821-4f10-8912-d55af99bbcab

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Hello, any progress on this?

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@pdcastro I'm also in need for an air-gapped deployment. In our case I have a fixed number of fleets that are effectively mirroring a hosted non-open balena fleet. I guess a workaround would be to either run the balena fleet create while the server is temporarily connected to the internet or to deploy a fully preconfigured openBalena installation including all DB,S3 etc docker volumes.

It looks as if it shouldn't be too hard to patch the API to load supported devices and version from a file. I guess one could use the SDK logic to generate that file from the official s3 bucket and deploy it with the openBalena deployment.

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Just to share that this seems to be fixed.

balena fleet create only tries to make selectDeviceType() call if option.type is not passed as an argument as can be seen here:

https://github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/blob/535ffccbade89716539f10edb26cf9905c538dcc/lib/commands/fleet/create.ts#L95-L97

That means that in our air-gapped environment one can still create a fleet using:

balena fleet create myFleet --type raspberry-pi

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