A cloud provider wants to automate the installation of standard applications and services as part of the PaaS environment. The provider generates scripts for installation and configuration, taking int

Provisioning refers to the act of allocating and setting up resources itself, not the automation framework that coordinates how the configuration scripts are triggered and sequenced.

Orchestration is the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex IT workflows - including running installation and configuration scripts in the correct sequence during provisioning. It accepts parameterized inputs from users, executes scripts automatically, and the same orchestration templates can be reused for future provisioning tasks. This is precisely how PaaS providers automate consistent environment setup across multiple tenants.

A self-service portal is a user-facing interface for requesting and configuring resources, not a mechanism for automating and reusing the underlying installation and configuration scripts.

Baselines define a standard configuration state or snapshot used for compliance and drift detection, not for automating the execution of parameterized installation scripts during provisioning.