The service.provisioning.controller repository is part of the group of
provisioning services.
This group consists of services and tools which allow users to provision a complete environment from
scratch and upgrade existing ones with new components. In this case an environment is defined as
An environment is a collection of resource instances and services that work together to achieve one or more goals, e.g. to provide the ability to serve customers with the ability to create, edit and store notes.
The service.provisioning.controller service provides a standard REST API which will
- Process requests for environment creation based on a set of templates for the different services that should be present in the environment
- Process requests for the updating of one or more services in an existing environment
- Process requests for the deletion of one or more services in an existing environment
- Process requests for the deletion of an existing environment
Internally the creation, updating or deleting of an environment will be done with tools like Terraform.