Abstract: Methods and systems for managing workloads in a distributed computing environment are disclosed. The distributed computing environment may include dedicated infrastructure for performing the workloads and on-demand infrastructure that may be used to perform the workloads with attached increment cost for performance of workloads. It may be preferable to host the workloads with the dedicated infrastructure. However, the dedicated infrastructure may not always have sufficient computing resources to host all of the workloads that are to be performed over time. The disclosed methods and system may provide for workload management by automating workload instantiation, migration, and resource expansion of dedicated infrastructure.