Providing temporary use of a web-based software application for centrally controlling operation of different deployed software resources; Providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software and applications for providing a single unified user interface with which to control distributed services running on cloud computing resources; Providing a web site featuring temporary use of non-downloadable software for a user interface with which to control, manage, orchestrate, and deploy applications and software images across distributed hardware; Providing on-line non-downloadable software for the provisioning, orchestration, federation, networking, and management of user software from a single interface; Providing temporary use of online non-downloadable middleware for providing an interface between users and user applications and data that are deployed across a network and executed on distributed compute resources