Provisioning meaning Provisioning is the process of setting up IT infrastructure. It can
also refer to the steps required to manage access to data and
resources, and make them available to users and systems.
Provisioning is not the same thing as configuration, but they are both
steps in the deployment process. Once something has been provisioned,
the next step is configuration.

I find the following lines confusing
&quot;It can also refer to the steps required to manage access to data and resources, and make them available to users and systems.&quot;
&quot;Provisioning is not the same thing as configuration, but they are both steps in the deployment process&quot;
How can you make your resources available to the user without setting them up and configuring them. So why isn't configuration a part of provisioning?
Also what exactly do you mean by setting up the resources?
As per my understanding on cloud native infra.
Provisioning involves creating resources like VMs/instances, setting up IAM roles and policies, Firewalls, DBs, Load balancers, any clusters like EKS, GKE, etc.
And, configuration part involves, preparing your instances to run actually your apps by installing necessary softwares and packages, setting up tables in DBs and populating data, RBAC controls on resources, etc.