All bird types (hardware, virtual, cloud, and container) have a final "Commission" step in their deployment, in which the Console handler must manually commission the device to mark it as expected.
The final commission step is a safety mechanism to ensure unexpected devices aren't able to pollute your console.
However, for automated deployments this is less than ideal since want to launch new instances without any human interaction. So they can be configured to commission themselves, and we call this "Auto Commissioning".
Auto Commissioning is supported in Container Canaries, as well as Cloud and VM Canaries.
Enabling Auto Commissioning
Auto Commissioning is enabled or disabled per Flock. To enable, follow these steps.
Step 1: Open your Flock settings
Login to your Console, and click on your Flock panel:
Then click the settings icon:
Step 2: Toggle Auto Commission
Scroll down the settings to the Devices section and toggle Enable Auto Commission.
Auto Commission is now enabled for this Flock.