Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for schedule-based lifecycle management of a virtual computing environment. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of execute or instantiate the machine readable instructions to at least generate a schedule including a rule, the rule to trigger an operation associated with a virtual resource of the virtualized environment, identify the virtual resource after a first determination that the rule corresponds to the virtual resource, and execute the operation after a second determination that a value of a utilization parameter of the virtual resource satisfies a threshold.