EXECUTION OF A COMPOSITE TEMPLATE TO PROVISION A COMPOSITE OF SOFTWARE SERVICE INSTANCES

Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for executing one or more composite templates to provision composite service instances. The method includes creating, by one or more processors, one or more service instances associated with one or more composite templates within a cloud environment, wherein the one or more composite templates each comprise at least two template members. The one or more processors further create one or more service instances for each of the at least two template members. The one or more processors further determine that dependencies exist between or amongst the at least two template members. The one or more processors further provision the one or more composite templates. The one or more processors further provision the at least two template members of the one or more composite templates using the dependencies that exist between or amongst the at least two template members.