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Each menu can be created from different sources. The responsibility of creating a menu container from the source falls on a container provider.
Each provider must implement the interface ProviderInterface and be registered in the ProviderPluginManager.
We offer just one provider for now, ArrayProvider, that is able to fetch and create a menu container from a php array that is defined in the configuration file.