An accelerator deployment tool determines resource requirements for one or more accelerator images, determines feature sets of a plurality of programmable devices, compares the resource requirements to the feature sets, determines whether the feature sets satisfy the resource requirements, and when the feature sets satisfy the resource requirements, selects one or more of the plurality of programmable devices that has a feature set that satisfies the resource requirements, and deploys the accelerator image(s) to the selected programmable device(s) to provide one or more accelerators corresponding to the accelerator image(s). A call can then be made to the one or more accelerators. The accelerator deployment tool thus automatically selects one or more programmable devices based on their feature sets and can automatically deploy one or more accelerator images to the one or more programmable devices.