containerprovided

containerprovided is a term used in software engineering to label resources or capabilities that are supplied by a container runtime or the container image itself, rather than by the application code or the host system.

In practice, the concept is used in configuration and orchestration to distinguish container-provided resources from host-provided or self-managed ones. It can apply to libraries included in the container image, environment settings delivered by the container, or services accessible inside the container through the container's network.

For example, a configuration file might declare containerprovided: true for a library that ships with the base image, signaling that the application should not install or update that library. In dependency injection frameworks, marking a component as containerprovided ensures the container's lifecycle controls the component rather than the application.

The term is not a formal standard, but it has appeared in internal docs and some orchestration guides as a practical way to express resource provenance in containerized deployments. It supports reproducibility and clearer separation of concerns between the container and the application.

See also: containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, dependency injection, runtime environment.