Orchestration

In system administration, orchestration is the automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and software1.

Orchestration is often discussed in the context of service-oriented architecture, virtualization, provisioning, converged infrastructure and dynamic datacenter topics2.

# References

  1. Erl, Thomas (2005) Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology & Design. Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-185858-0 ↩

  2. Orchestration (computing) - Wikipedia ↩

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