Platform & DevOps·Infrastructure described in a file
the machine, the network and the disk are created and exist, and nothing has yet been installed on any of them.
Provisioning
Also calledresource provisioning, infrastructure creation
Creating and wiring the infrastructure resources themselves — instances, networks, load balancers, databases. It is the layer where declarative tooling is strongest, because cloud APIs are already resource-shaped. Distinguishing it from what happens inside those resources is the distinction that decides whether you need a configuration management tool at all.