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Does ECS Fargate need cluster and nodes to be provisioned?

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I'm trying to deploy containers on ECS Fargate.

I understand we can deploy the containers as Fargate tasks.

But is there any concept of provisioning clusters and nodes on ECS cluster for deploying Fargate tasks?

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With the help of ECS Fargate you can deploy containers without having to manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances.

Though you do need to create logical cluster but it's really simple.

You can refer following document. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/getting-started-fargate.html
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In ECS Fargate, you don't have to create ESC as it is something AWS takes care of creating and managing the underlying infrastructure.
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You need a cluster to provision any task, Fargate or not. However with Fargate you don't need nodes anymore which is somewhat the point. Cluster is somewhat of a namespace, provisioning it doesn't take any resources other than quotas. You could also have clusters that create resources that are a mix of Fargate and EC2 launch methods.
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  1. Nodes I haven't heard of as far as I have worked on Fargate,

  2. Farget hase Clusters inside which we have services and tasks. usually tasks are connected with services.

for more information about them I recommend a portion of AWS Developer Associate Certification preparation course by "Stephen Marek" on udemy which may help you understanding Fargate in much depth and simpler ways