How fleet gets the data from chromenbooks since osquery is not supported in the chromeos ? Basically I want to enroll couple of chromebooks to fleet and from fleet docs it seems this won't be possible without chrome enterprise enrolment. Is there any workaround of chromebook enrolment without chrome enterprise. Chrome enterprise have a recurring cost of 50$ per annum.

Hey @Jayendra! The extension gathers data using the APIs available in Chrome. Currently, there is not a way to install the extension on non-managed devices. I will reach out to the team to see what future plans may be there!

Hi @Jayendra I looked at the google admin documentation and indeed you would need an Enterprise license in order to deploy the extension. I was able to download the extension manually via

sudo curl -iL <https://chrome.fleetdm.com/fleetd.crx> --output fleetd.crx

and then followed https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-install-chrome-extensions-manually/ to install manually. Is this the best method to install? Probably not, as what happens when your endpoints need an update? The GAdmin method handles this for you. But, depending on the number of endpoints you want to manage and the work you want to do, perhaps this might be a quick fix for you.

Nice @Dherder! Do you know how you'd set the URL and enroll secret with that route?

My method is a hack at best and I definitely didn't think about the policy JSON (oops). Definitely, the preferred route is via an Enterprise Chrome subscription. I found some better instructions here: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/external_extensions/ but I don't think that is 100% what you want @Jayendra because this is just a method to manually install the extension, not the policy also.

Hey Thanks of both of you for such pointers. As of now I have around 10 such devices so this hack may suffice for short time. cc @Dhaval Patel