1. A method, comprising: defining an application manifest that describes a computing solution for transfer from a cloud site to an on-premises computing appliance at a given non-cloud premises, the computing solution being executable for a dataset resident at the given non-cloud premises; defining a characterization of a local non-cloud premises environment in which the computing solution will be executed; modifying the application manifest using the characterization of the local non-cloud premises environment by at least one of adding, removing and modifying at least one component of the application manifest to provide a modified application manifest; and installing the computing solution in a computing appliance at the local non-cloud premises environment according to the modified application manifest, the computing appliance for executing the computing solution.