Implementations provide for a source to image transformation pipeline for a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system. A method of the disclosure includes receiving a request to create an application for execution on a multi-tenant PaaS system, introspecting received source files associated with the application to identify at least one of a language or a framework corresponding to the application, identifying a build image corresponding to the identified at least one of the language or the framework, constructing a build configuration object, a deployment configuration object, and a networking configuration object for the application, and transmitting, by the processing device, the build configuration object, the deployment configuration object, and the networking configuration object to a master layer of the multi-tenant PaaS system to enable the multi-tenant PaaS system to build and deploy the application at one or more nodes of the multi-tenant PaaS system.