Deploying an application in a cloud computing environment

A computer program product for deploying an application in a cloud computing environment, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising computer readable program code configured to:
• collect, while a user is deploying an application in the cloud computing environment, metadata and instructions issued by the user on deploying the application, the metadata comprising service metadata, application metadata and topology metadata, wherein the service metadata comprise metadata on a service required for deploying the application, the application metadata comprise metadata on the application, and the topology metadata comprise metadata indicative of a relationship between the service and the application;
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• store, according to an operational order in which the user deploys the application, the collected metadata and instructions as a model for re-deploying the application in the cloud computing environment.