1. An apparatus comprising: processing circuitry; a network interface coupled with the processing circuitry; and logic, at least partially implemented by the processing circuitry, the logic to: send a request to generate a bootable image in a cloud-based computing environment to a remote computing device, generate a software archive of one or more files of software to install on the bootable image, and provide the software archive of the one or more files of software to the remote computing device for installation on the bootable image.