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Decoupling scheduler creation from creation of scheduler.Config struc…
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Adds functionality to the scheduler to initialize from an Configurator interface, rather then via a Config struct.
**Which issue this PR fixes**
Reduces coupling to `scheduler.Config` data structure format so that we can proliferate more interface driven composition of scheduler components.
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