1. A method, comprising: providing, by an administrative computing device, a virtual machine (VM) to a workstation that is not a dedicated cloud computing resource of a cloud environment managed by the administrative computing device; authenticating, by the administrative computing device, the VM for inclusion in the cloud environment as a cloud computing resource of the cloud environment; updating, by the administrative computing device, a database of VMs utilized as cloud computing resources with information of the VM related to its operational status; providing, by the administrative computing device to the VM, instructions for the VM to operate as the cloud computing resource in the cloud environment, the providing the instructions in view of current demand for cloud services of the cloud environment and an overall current supply of cloud computing resources presently available in the cloud environment; establishing, by the administrative computing device once the VM is initiated on the workstation, a connection to the VM via dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP); receiving, by the administrative computing device, authentication from the VM via the connection; providing, by the administrative computing device, a private Internet Protocol (IP) address to the VM if the workstation does not have multiple external IP addresses to work with; receiving, by the administrative computing device, an indication that the VM is logging off from the administrative computing device; and updating, by the administrative computing device, the database of VMs utilized as cloud computing resources with information of the VM related to its non-operational status.