provisioning

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provisioning

  1. present participle and gerund of provision

Noun[edit]

provisioning (plural provisionings)

  1. An act of supplying with provisions.
  2. (computing) The installation of software on a system, especially when automated.
    • 2015, Michael Peacock, Creating Development Environments with Vagrant, Second edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 37:
      The problem of installing software on a booted system is known as provisioning, and is often the job of shell scripts, configuration management systems, or manual command-line entry.

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