1. A computing system implemented method comprising: a cloud transformation module transforming content for a compute platform; a cloud control module receiving said content from said cloud transformation module, said cloud control module provisioning a virtual machine appliance to form said compute platform; a cloud instantiation module executing said provisioning of said cloud control module; a cloud appliance module adding middleware to a virtual machine to create said virtual machine appliance; and a cloud virtualization module producing a virtualized representation of said compute platform.