Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for ad-hoc solution resources determination and provisioning. A method includes, in a target compute system residing in a network of interconnected compute systems, assigning a unique identifier to a requested solution, selecting providers for providing identified components of the requested solution, storing identifications of the selected providers along with associated identified components in a hierarchical data structure in a memory of the target compute system, each of the associated identified components defining a set of required resources, and installing the identified components listed in the hierarchical data structure.