Provisioning
Provisioning is the process of preparing resources by creating, allocating, or configuring them so they are available for use.
Acing the CCNA Exam: Volume 2 Advanced Networking and Security
Infrastructure provisioning is the process of deploying and preparing computing, network, or cloud infrastructure resources.
- How it is used
- Deploys new infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments rather than primarily managing existing device configurations.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the declarative workflow, state comparison, providers, push model, and agentless operation, but gives no detailed HCL implementation.
- Examples
- Uses HCL configuration files, Terraform Core, providers, cloud resources, and the Terraform state file as concrete artifacts.
- What you can do after
- Operate Terraform by writing HCL, planning changes, and applying declarative infrastructure across supported providers.
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Road to Kubernetes
Provisioning is the process of creating and initializing computing resources so they are ready to run software.
- How it is used
- Creates a cloud-based virtual machine as the starting point for deploying applications.
- How deep it goes
- Defines virtualization, walks through VM settings, and verifies SSH access, stopping before application installation or automated provisioning.
- Examples
- Uses Linode VMs configured with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, regional selection, shared CPU plans, labels, passwords, SSH keys, and IP addresses.
- What you can do after
- Operate a provisioned virtual machine by creating it, retrieving its IP address, and verifying SSH access.
Related concepts
- infrastructure as codeused by · Infrastructure as code is the practice of defining, provisioning, and managing computing infrastructure through machine-readable code or configuration rather than manual procedures.
- infrastructure resourceuses · An infrastructure resource is an identifiable supporting component or service that provides technical capabilities on which applications or other system components depend.
- Terraformincludes · Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool for defining, provisioning, and managing infrastructure resources through declarative configuration.
- directory serviceuses · A directory service is a network-accessible system that organizes, stores, and retrieves information about identities, resources, attributes, and permissions.
- default valueconfigured by · A default value is a predefined or automatically supplied value used when an expected input, argument, field, or configuration setting is omitted or unspecified.
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