Provisioning

What It Is

Provisioning is the accountable construction of a requested customer workspace. Staff provide its identity and customer relationship, then Rhythm records a durable job to build the application resources it needs. The workspace exists during construction but remains closed to ordinary customer work. Readiness separates a successful request from a usable result.

The job gives staff a continuing reference for the work. Its steps represent participant construction, readiness and activation. A submission identity links repeated copies of the same request to that recorded result. Retry has its own identity and lineage, preserving the distinction between the original attempt and the work needed to finish it.

What It Is Not

Provisioning does not import the customer’s business records. Those arrive during a later loading period. It also differs from initialization, which supplies missing resources or defaults to an existing workspace. Portal onboarding builds member sign-in infrastructure later; a provisioning request can record portal interest without constructing that infrastructure.

An accepted request is not evidence that construction has completed. Similarly, an outcome notice describes the job’s result but does not itself authorize customer access.

How It Is Used

A Rhythm administrator submits the workspace details and can inspect progress through the provisioning snapshot. The job asks application participants to build in dependency order, then checks what each participant created. A missing resource or protocol refusal leaves an explanation for staff and keeps the workspace closed.

Failure preserves partial construction. Staff correct the cause and retry rather than ask the system to remove everything already built. The replacement attempt carries completed steps. An unwanted failed workspace instead follows deliberate deletion. Reconciliation and repair address attempts that never started or left the workspace behind their settled job state.

Its Facets

Submission. A request identity makes repeated submission return the same result. A different request still cannot claim an existing or retired identifier.

Plan and steps. Enabled participants and their dependencies establish the work order. Comparing live and planned participant order detects registration changes before execution.

Requested mode. The request chooses live or implementation standing for activation, with implementation as the default.

First administrator. A newly created customer can name a person for the customer-level Administrator invitation. Compatible existing invitations are adopted; unusable authority stops that step.

Sender setup. Domain or address identities are established without waiting for DNS verification. Shared sending remains available while the requested identity is pending.

Portal interest. The recorded request reserves information for later portal work rather than promising a pool at construction time.

Outcome reporting. The requester notice and operations alert let staff learn the result without continuously watching. Their failures have separate handling from construction.

Retry lineage. A new attempt refers to its failed predecessor and retains completed work, making recovery inspectable.

How It Relates

Provisioning moves workspace lifecycle toward active or failed construction. Participants own the resources they build and the ledgers for their defaults. The job engine owns durable execution and shared job inspection. Workspace administration owns ordinary customer and workspace fields. Deletion supplies the exit for a failed build staff choose not to finish.

What It Could Become

The product should make activation housekeeping and its differing failure boundaries explicit. Planned cloning and extended portal-domain setup also need settled contracts before staff can rely on them. None of those extensions changes the existing distinction between requesting a workspace, completing its build and loading its customer records.