About
A orchestration tool will provision the servers or container themselves, leaving the job of configuring those servers to other configuration management tool.
It's part of a set of tool to support infrastructure as code.
Meaning of the term orchestration
- basic ordering or command-blasting
- conducting machines like an orchestra
The capability to do operations on multi-tier applications in a coordinated way, making it easy to orchestrate a sophisticated zero-downtime rolling upgrade.