1. A method, comprising: deploying a parent workload to a first environment using a deployment policy; and initiating, by the parent workload through recursive spawning, one or more child instances of the parent workload to one or more second environments while maintaining the parent workload as a root of a tree data structure and each of the child instances as nodes of the tree data structure, the parent workload and the child instances cooperate to act as a single unit and the single unit managed by the parent workload, and enforcing, by the parent workload, identity-based authentication for the child instances through messages sent along paths of the tree data structure back to the parent workload upon initiation of the child instances, and configuring each child instance to be aware of and pass particular messages to that child instance's connected nodes within the tree data structure.