What Is Cloud Provisioning?
Clouds start up. Actually, cloud computing services are usually said to ‘spin up’ into life. It’s a sort of emotive way of saying that the technology is ready to use, while also making reference to the fact that somewhere in a datacenter, on some distant server rack, a hard disk has been spun up into life to serve and deliver a cloud instance. The fact that some or all of the disks in a particular cloud server may already be rotating is academic, cloud starts up when an instance is spun up.
As instantaneous as cloud spin-up is, like any vigorous exercise it’s best to warm up first. In cloud land, this is a practice known as cloud provisioning. It is the process of readying a cloud for its intended tasks by making sure that it has the required attributes and performance characteristics. The trouble is, as automated as so many of the technologies in this space are, cloud provisioning can be quite a chore.
But why is cloud provisioning a chore?
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