Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for assisting with adoption or migration to a cloud-based system architecture. A system can include a network communications device and one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors can create stack code from a code template, host a catalog of code templates including the code template, output identifiers for the catalog via a computer network for presentation, deploy the stack code to a server for use in preparing a virtual container, construct and launch a trial version of the virtual container from the stack code using the server, output training information via the computer network for presentation where the training information is associated with operations of the virtual container, monitor utilization of or performance associated with the virtual container, and output governance information via the computer network for presentation where the governance information is associated with the operations of the virtual container.