Pre loaded Device component with Greengrass installer

Hello, will the component you want to preload have component artifacts too? Greengrass does not have builtin support for preloading components from a combination of recipe, artifacts and component configuration the same way as making a deployment from Cloud. But your use case may be achievable by utilizing regular deployments. Active Greengrass deployments that target IoT Thing Groups are automatically delivered to any new devices added to the same group even if the deployment was created much earlier. So when your device goes through the provisioning/ installation workflow, if you can also have it added to an IoT Thing Group that has a deployment for the component you want, the device will connect to cloud and automatically process the deployment to start up the component. Let us know if that doesn't work for your use case.

You might also consider "golden images": Manufacturing devices at scale with AWS IoT Greengrass golden images