Techniques are disclosed for associating environmental condition information with a software component so that the environmental conditions can be automatically verified when a software package containing the software component is deployed. As a result, environmental conditions can be established when a software component is initially developed by the operators who may be best-suited to determine appropriate environmental conditions. Further, environmental condition enforcement can be performed automatically at the time of deployment, without human intervention. For example, when the software component is about to deployed, a deployment system can automatically examine the information about the target environment to verify that target environment satisfies the encoded environmental conditions.