What is provisioning?

• Provision: the action of providing or supplying something for use
• Provisioning:
  • The activity of obtaining the equipment and resources you need for a particular activity
  • In general, provisioning means “providing” or making something available

Provisioning in the context of IT

• The process of setting up IT infrastructure and making them available to users and systems
• Manage access to data and resources
• Provisioning is not the same thing as configuration - once something has been provisioned, the next step is configuration

Provisioning can mean many different types

• Server provisioning: the process of setting up a server to be used in a network based on required resources
• Network provisioning: setting up a network to be accessed by users, servers, containers, and IoT devices, among other things
• User provisioning: a type of identity management that monitors access rights and authorization privileges.
• Service provisioning: set up of a service and managing the data related to it
• and more…

Provisioning in telecommunication

In telecommunication, provisioning involves the process of preparing and equipping a network to allow it to provide new services to its users.

Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisioning_(telecommunications)