A method of facilitating autonomous computing within a cloud service includes generating a cloud service based on a lifecycle management topology, in which the cloud service is an autonomous management service, a self-management service, or combinations thereof. The method also includes establishing a number of management processes to be performed within the cloud service, in which the number of management processes comprise autonomous management processes, self-management processes, or combinations thereof. The cloud service includes an instantiation of the topology and a number of applications executable on the instantiation of the topology.