A method for providing a trial environment to enable a user to try out at least one application in a cloud environment is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) if a selection of an application that the user prefers to try out is detected, acquiring information on a platform that is appropriate to run the application from related information of the application, and determining whether or not the trial environment built on the appropriate platform is available for the application to be run thereon; (b) if the trial environment is detected not to be available by referring to a result of the determination, configuring and setting the trial environment built on the appropriate platform to be available on the basis of the related information of the application; and (c) enabling the user to run the application in the available trial environment.