1. A method comprising: attaching a trigger to a job that is associated with a reservation of compute resources; and firing the trigger based on a trigger attribute, wherein the compute environment is modified by an action that is initiated when the trigger is fired, wherein the compute environment is managed by a workload manager that reserves, at a first time, the compute resources in the compute environment to yield the reservation, and wherein the job consumes the compute resources associated with the reservation at a second time which is later than the first time.