Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Manual provisioning

Manual provisioning sounds like an anti-pattern, but in practice it is useful in several situations; for example, if you are managing on-premises cluster where you physically have to provision servers, wire them together, and install storage too. Another common use case is during development when you want to develop your automated provisioning, but you have an interactive experiment (probably not in production). However, even in production, if you discover some misconfiguration or another issue, you may need to respond by manually provisioning some resources to address the crisis.