Various systems and methods are described for deployment, import, and scheduling of containers and other software components on cloud and edge computing hardware. A development platform may receive, from a remote location, package data for a deployment of one or more containers, including a configuration for the one or more containers. Such package data may be provided by a Helm chart or a Docker Compose YAML file. The development platform may extract the configuration for the one or more containers from the package data, and also perform a security evaluation of the one or more containers and the configuration for the one or more containers to validate compliance with a security policy. The development platform may execute (and coordinate scheduling) of one or more container images for the one or more containers, based on the configuration, after validating compliance with the security policy.