Methods and apparatus to generate a customized application blueprint

An apparatus comprising:

• an application definition generator to generate an application definition for an unmanaged application associated with a first computing unit;
• an application blueprint generator to:
• select a first logical template associated with an unmodified version of a service provided by the first computing unit;
• generate an application blueprint including the first logical template;
• modify the first logical template included in the application blueprint based on a first property of the first computing unit;
• insert a dependency between a first logical template representative of the first computing unit and a second logical template representative of a second computing unit;
• and
• an application director to deploy a managed application according to the application blueprint to implement the unmanaged application.

A tangible computer readable storage medium comprising machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause a logic circuit to at least:

• generate an application definition for an unmanaged application associated with a first computing unit;
• select a first logical template associated with an unmodified version of a service provided by the first computing unit;
• generate an application blueprint including the first logical template;
• modify the first logical template included in the application blueprint based on a first property of the first computing unit;
• insert a dependency between a first logical template representative of the first computing unit and a second logical template representative of a second computing unit;
• and
• deploy a managed application according to the application blueprint to implement the unmanaged application.