1. A system, comprising: a plurality of computing containers, each of said computing containers having processing resources for executing software workloads; a plurality of management processes for controlling access to said processing resources according to a plurality of workload policy definitions, each of said plurality of workload policy definitions having at least one attribute defining an amount of a resource for allocation to a computing container; a data container for storing said plurality of workload policy definitions and associations between said plurality of workload policy definitions and said plurality of computing containers; and a configuration process for communicating said plurality of workload policy definitions from said data container to said plurality of management processes, said configuration process being operable to autonomously communicate updated workload policy definitions to said plurality of management processes upon modification.