1. A method implemented in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and processed by one or more processors configured to perform the method, comprising: acquiring cloud attribute data for a target cloud processing environment and acquiring service attribute data for a service; evaluating a deployment specification for deploying the service to the target cloud processing environment; developing a service placement plan for scheduling the deployment of the service to the target cloud processing environment based on the cloud attribute data, the service attribute data, and the deployment specification; and deploying the service to the target cloud processing environment in accordance with the service placement plan.