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Service Catalog:CreateTemplate

Last Updated:Feb 10, 2026

Creates a template. Service Catalog saves the template based on the parameters that you specify and returns the URL of the template.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

servicecatalog:CreateTemplate

create

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

TemplateBody

string

Yes

The content of the template.

For more information about the template syntax, see Structure of Terraform templates.

{ "ROSTemplateFormatVersion": "2015-09-01", "Transform": "Aliyun::Terraform-v1.1", "Workspace": { "main.tf": "variable \"name\" { default = \"auto_provisioning_group\"}" }, "Outputs": {} }

TemplateType

string

Yes

The type of the product template. Valid values:

  • RosTerraformTemplate: the Terraform template that is supported by Resource Orchestration Service (ROS).

  • RosStandardTemplate: the standard ROS template.

RosTerraformTemplate

TerraformVariables

array<object>

No

The variable settings of the Terraform template. You can configure the variables in a structured manner. Service Catalog applies the variable settings to the template.

Note

The variables must be defined in the Terraform template.

object

No

VariableName

string

No

The name of the variable.

instance_type

Description

string

No

The description of the variable.

For more information about the format of variable descriptions, see Methods and suggestions for Terraform code development.

{ "Label": { "zh-cn": "实例规格", "en": "Instance Type" }, "AllowedValues": [ "ecs.s6-c1m1.small", "ecs.s6-c1m2.large", "ecs.s6-c1m2.xlarge" ] }

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The response parameters.

RequestId

string

The ID of the request.

0FEEF92D-4052-5202-87D0-3D8EC16F81BF

TemplateUrl

string

The URL of the template.

oss://servicecatalog-cn-hangzhou/146611588617****/terraform/template/tpl-bp1217we23****/template.json

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "0FEEF92D-4052-5202-87D0-3D8EC16F81BF",
  "TemplateUrl": "oss://servicecatalog-cn-hangzhou/146611588617****/terraform/template/tpl-bp1217we23****/template.json"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

500 InternalError A system error occurred.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.