CreateLaunchTemplate - API Reference| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Description

Instance launch templates contain preset configurations used to create instances, such as the region, image ID, instance type, security group ID, and public bandwidth settings. If the configuration of a certain parameter is not included in a template, you must manually specify the parameter when you create an instance.

After you create a template (CreateLaunchTemplate), its version number is set to 1 by default. You can create multiple versions (CreateLaunchTemplateVersion) based on this template. Version numbers start from 1 and increase in sequential order. If you do not specify a template version number when you create instances (RunInstances), the default version is used.

When you call this operation, take note of the following items:

You can create up to 30 instance launch templates in each region. Each template can have up to 30 versions.
Most parameters of instance launch templates are optional. When you create a template, ECS does not verify the existence or validity of its parameter values. The validity of specified parameter values cannot be verified until you create instances by using the template.
If you set a certain parameter in an instance launch template, you cannot filter out this setting when you create instances (RunInstances) by using this template. For example, if you set HostName to LocalHost for a template, and do not specify the HostName parameter when you call the RunInstances operation to create instances, the instance hostname is still LocalHost. If you want to overwrite HostName=LocalHost, you can set HostName to MyHost or another value when you call the RunInstances operation.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer. OpenAPI Explorer dynamically generates the sample code of the operation for different SDKs.

Request parameters


Parameter	Type	Required	Example	Description
Action	String	Yes	CreateLaunchTemplate	The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to CreateLaunchTemplate.
LaunchTemplateName	String	Yes	testLaunchTemplateName	The name of the launch template. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://. It can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).
RegionId	String	Yes	cn-hangzhou	The region ID of the launch template. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.
TemplateTag.N.Key	String	No	TestKey	The key of tag N of the launch template. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag key cannot be an empty string. It can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot start with acs: or aliyun. It cannot contain http:// or https://.
TemplateTag.N.Value	String	No	TestValue	The value of tag N of the launch template. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag value can be an empty string. It can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot start with acs: or aliyun. It cannot contain http:// or https://.
VersionDescription	String	No	testVersionDescription	The description of the launch template version. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length and cannot start with http:// or https://.
ImageId	String	No	win2008r2_64_ent_sp1_en-us_40G_alibase_20170915.vhd	The ID of the image used to create an instance. You can call the DescribeImages operation to query the available images.
ImageOwnerAlias	String	No	system	The source of the image. Valid values: system: public images provided by Alibaba Cloud. self: your custom images. others: images shared from other Alibaba Cloud accounts. marketplace: available images from Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. If Alibaba Cloud Marketplace images are returned in the response, you can directly use these images without prior subscription. You must pay attention to the billing details of Alibaba Cloud Marketplace images. This parameter is empty by default, which indicates that the results matching system, self, and others are returned.
PasswordInherit	Boolean	No	false	Specifies whether to use the password preset in the image. Note If PasswordInherit is set to true, leave Password empty and make sure that the selected image has a password preset.
InstanceType	String	No	ecs.g5.large	The instance type of the instance. For more information, see Instance families. Alternatively, you can call the DescribeInstanceTypes operation to query the most recent instance type list.
SecurityGroupId	String	No	sg-bp15ed6xe1yxeycg****	The ID of the security group to which the instance belongs. Instances in the same security group can communicate with each other. One security group can contain a maximum of 1,000 instances.
VpcId	String	No	vpc-bp12433upq1y5scen****	The ID of the VPC to which the instance belongs.
VSwitchId	String	No	vsw-bp1s5fnvk4gn2tws0****	The ID of the VSwitch. You must specify this parameter after you specify the VpcId parameter.
InstanceName	String	No	testInstanceName	The name of the instance. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://. It can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).
Description	String	No	testECSDescription	The description of the instance. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length and cannot start with http:// or https://.
InternetMaxBandwidthIn	Integer	No	10	The maximum inbound public bandwidth. Unit: Mbit/s. Valid values: If the purchased outbound public bandwidth is less than or equal to 10 Mbit/s, valid values of this parameter are 1 to 10 and the default value is 10. If the purchased outbound public bandwidth is greater than 10 Mbit/s, valid values of this parameter are 1 to the value of the `InternetMaxBandwidthOut` parameter and the default value is the value of the `InternetMaxBandwidthOut` parameter.
InternetMaxBandwidthOut	Integer	No	10	The maximum outbound public bandwidth. Unit: Mbit/s. Valid values: 0 to 100.
HostName	String	No	testHostName	The hostname of the instance. The hostname cannot start or end with a period (.) or a hyphen (-). It cannot contain consecutive periods (.) or hyphens (-). For Windows instances, the hostname must be 2 to 15 characters in length and can contain letters, digits, and hyphens (-). It cannot contain periods (.) or only digits. For instances that run other operating systems such as Linux, the hostname must be 2 to 64 characters in length. You can use periods (.) to separate the hostname into multiple segments. Each segment can contain letters, digits, and hyphens (-).
ZoneId	String	No	cn-hangzhou-g	The zone ID of the instance.
SystemDisk.Category	String	No	cloud_ssd	The category of the system disk. Valid values: cloud: basic disk cloud_efficiency: ultra disk cloud_ssd: standard SSD cloud_essd: enhanced SSD (ESSD)
SystemDisk.Size	Integer	No	40	The size of the system disk. Unit: GiB. Valid values: 20 to 500. The value of this parameter must be at least 20 and greater than or equal to the size of the image.
SystemDisk.DiskName	String	No	testSystemDiskName	The name of the system disk. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://. It can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).
SystemDisk.Description	String	No	testSystemDiskDescription	The description of the system disk. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length and cannot start with http:// or https://.
DataDisk.N.Size	Integer	No	2000	The size of data disk N. Valid values of N: 1 to 16. Unit: GiB. Valid values: Valid values when DataDisk.N.Category is set to cloud: 5 to 2000 Valid values when DataDisk.N.Category is set to cloud_efficiency: 20 to 32768 Valid values when DataDisk.N.Category is set to cloud_ssd: 20 to 32768 Valid values when DataDisk.N.Category is set to cloud_essd: 20 to 32768 The value of this parameter must be greater than or equal to the size of the snapshot specified by the `SnapshotId` parameter.
DataDisk.N.SnapshotId	String	No	s-bp17441ohwka0yuh****	The ID of the snapshot used to create data disk N. Valid values of N: 1 to 16. When the `DataDisk.N.SnapshotId` parameter is specified, the `DataDisk.N.Size` parameter is ignored. The data disk is created based on the size of the specified snapshot. Use snapshots created after July 15, 2013. Otherwise, an error is returned and your request is rejected.
DataDisk.N.Category	String	No	cloud_ssd	The category of data disk N. Valid values: cloud: basic disk cloud_efficiency: ultra disk cloud_ssd: standard SSD cloud_essd: ESSD
DataDisk.N.Encrypted	String	No	false	Specifies whether to encrypt data disk N.
DataDisk.N.DiskName	String	No	testDataDiskName	The name of data disk N. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://. It can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).
DataDisk.N.Description	String	No	testDataDiskDescription	The description of data disk N. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length and cannot start with http:// or https://.
DataDisk.N.DeleteWithInstance	Boolean	No	true	Specifies whether to release data disk N when the instance is released.
IoOptimized	String	No	optimized	Specifies whether the instance is I/O optimized. Valid values: none: The instance is not I/O optimized. optimized: The instance is I/O optimized.
NetworkInterface.N.PrimaryIpAddress	String	No	192.168..	The primary private IP address of elastic network interface (ENI) N. Note The value of N in `NetworkInterface.N` cannot be greater than 1.
NetworkInterface.N.VSwitchId	String	No	vsw-bp1s5fnvk4gn2tws0****	The ID of the VSwitch to which ENI N is connected. The instance and ENI N must be in the same zone of the same VPC, but they can be connected to different VSwitches. Note The value of N in `NetworkInterface.N` cannot be greater than 1.
NetworkInterface.N.SecurityGroupId	String	No	sg-bp15ed6xe1yxeycg****	The ID of the security group to which ENI N belongs. The security group of ENI N must belong to the same VPC as that of the instance. Note The value of N in `NetworkInterface.N` cannot be greater than 1.
NetworkInterface.N.NetworkInterfaceName	String	No	testEniName	The name of ENI N. Note The value of N in `NetworkInterface.N` cannot be greater than 1.
NetworkInterface.N.Description	String	No	testEniDescription	The description of ENI N. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length and cannot start with http:// or https://. Note The value of N in `NetworkInterface.N` cannot be greater than 1.
InstanceChargeType	String	No	PrePaid	The billing method of the instance. Valid values: PrePaid: subscription. If you set this parameter to PrePaid, make sure that your account supports credit payment. Otherwise, an `InvalidPayMethod` error is returned. PostPaid: pay-as-you-go.
Period	Integer	No	1	The subscription period of the instance. Unit: months. This parameter takes effect and is required only when `InstanceChargeType` is set to `PrePaid`. If the DedicatedHostId parameter is specified, values of the Period parameter must be within the subscription period of the dedicated host. Valid values: When the `PeriodUnit` parameter is set to Week, valid values of the Period parameter are 1, 2, 3, and 4. When the `PeriodUnit` parameter is set to Month, valid values of the Period parameter are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60.
InternetChargeType	String	No	PayByTraffic	The billing method for network usage. Valid values: PayByBandwidth PayByTraffic
EnableVmOsConfig	Boolean	No	false	Specifies whether to enable the operating system configuration of the instance. Note This parameter will be removed in the future. We recommend that you use other parameters to ensure future compatibility.
NetworkType	String	No	vpc	The network type of the instance. Valid values: classic vpc
UserData	String	No	ZWNobyBoZWxsbyBlY3Mh	The user data of the instance. User data must be encoded in Base64. The maximum size of raw data is 16 KB.
KeyPairName	String	No	testKeyPairName	The name of the SSH key pair. For Windows instances, this parameter is ignored. The `Password` parameter takes effect even if the KeyPairName parameter is specified. For Linux instances, the username and password logon method is disabled by default.
RamRoleName	String	No	testRamRoleName	The RAM role name of the instance. You can call the ListRoles operation provided by RAM to query the instance RAM roles that you have created.
AutoReleaseTime	String	No	2018-01-01T12:05:00Z	The time scheduled for the instance to be automatically released. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format. The time must be in UTC. If the value of seconds (`ss`) is not `00`, this parameter is automatically set to the start time of the current minute (`mm`). The release time must be at least 30 minutes later than the current time. The release time must be at most three years from the current time.
SpotStrategy	String	No	NoSpot	The preemption policy for a pay-as-you-go instance. This parameter takes effect only when `InstanceChargeType` is set to `PostPaid`. Valid values: NoSpot: applies to regular pay-as-you-go instances. SpotWithPriceLimit: applies to preemptible instances that have user-defined maximum hourly prices. SpotAsPriceGo: applies to preemptible instances that are of the market price at the time of purchase.
SpotPriceLimit	Float	No	0.97	The maximum hourly price of the instance. This parameter takes effect only when `SpotStrategy` is set to `SpotWithPriceLimit`. A maximum of three decimal places are allowed.
SpotDuration	Integer	No	1	The protection period of the preemptible instance. Unit: hours. Valid values: 0 to 6. Protection periods of two to six hours are in invitational preview. If you want to set the protection period value to one of these values, submit a ticket. If this parameter is set to 0, no protection period is configured for the preemptible instance. Default value: 1.
ResourceGroupId	String	No	rg-bp67acfmxazb4p****	The ID of the resource group to which the instance, Elastic Block Storage (EBS) device, and ENI belong.
TemplateResourceGroupId	String	No	rg-bp67acfmxazb4p****	The ID of the resource group to which the launch template belongs.
SecurityEnhancementStrategy	String	No	Deactive	Specifies whether to enable security hardening for the operating system. Valid values: Active: enables security hardening. This value is applicable to only public images. Deactive: disables security hardening. This value is applicable to all image types.
Tag.N.Key	String	No	TestKey	The key of tag N of the instance, EBS device, or primary NIC. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag key cannot be an empty string. It can be up to 64 characters in length and cannot start with acs: or aliyun. It cannot contain http:// or https://.
Tag.N.Value	String	No	TestValue	The value of tag N of the instance, EBS device, or primary NIC. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag value can be an empty string. It can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot start with acs: or aliyun. It cannot contain http:// or https://.

Response parameters


Parameter	Type	Example	Description
LaunchTemplateId	String	lt-m5eiaupmvm2op9d****	The ID of the launch template.
RequestId	String	473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E	The ID of the request.

Examples

Sample requests

https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=CreateLaunchTemplate
&LaunchTemplateName=testLaunchTemplateName
&RegionId=cn-hangzhou
&TemplateTag.1.Key=TestKey
&TemplateTag.1.Value=TestValue
&VersionDescription=testVersionDescription
&ImageId=win2008r2_64_ent_sp1_en-us_40G_alibase_20170915.vhd
&InstanceType=ecs.g5.large
&SecurityGroupId=sg-bp15ed6xe1yxeycg****
&VpcId=vpc-bp12433upq1y5scen****
&VSwitchId=vsw-bp1s5fnvk4gn2tws03****
&InstanceName=testInstanceName
&Description=testECSDescription
&InternetMaxBandwidthIn=10
&InternetMaxBandwidthOut=10
&HostName=testHostName
&ZoneId=cn-hangzhou-g
&SystemDisk.Category=cloud_ssd
&SystemDisk.Size=40
&SystemDisk.DiskName=testSystemDiskName
&SystemDisk.Description=TestDisk
&DataDisk.1.Size=2000
&DataDisk.1.SnapshotId=s-bp17441ohwka0yuh****
&DataDisk.1.Category=cloud_ssd
&DataDisk.1.Encrypted=false
&DataDisk.1.DiskName=testDataDiskName
&DataDisk.1.Description=testDataDiskDescription
&DataDisk.1.DeleteWithInstance=true
&IoOptimized=optimized
&NetworkInterface.1.PrimaryIpAddress=192.168. **. **
&NetworkInterface.1.VSwitchId=vsw-bp1s5fnvk4gn2tws0****
&NetworkInterface.1.SecurityGroupId=sg-bp15ed6xe1yxeycg****
&NetworkInterface.1.NetworkInterfaceName=testEniName
&NetworkInterface.1.Description=testEniDescription
&InstanceChargeType=PrePaid
&Period=1
&InternetChargeType=PayByTraffic
&NetworkType=vpc
&UserData=ZWNobyBoZWxsbyBlY3Mh
&RamRoleName=testRamRoleName
&AutoReleaseTime=2018-01-01T12:05:00Z
&SpotStrategy=NoSpot
&SpotPriceLimit=0.97
&SecurityEnhancementStrategy=Deactive
&Tag.1.Key=TestKey
&Tag.1.Value=TestValue
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format

<CreateLaunchTemplateResponse>
      <RequestId>473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E</RequestId>
      <LaunchTemplateId>lt-m5eiaupmvm2op9d****</LaunchTemplateId>
</CreateLaunchTemplateResponse>

JSON format

{
    "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E",
    "LaunchTemplateId": "lt-m5eiaupmvm2op9d****"
}

Error codes


HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	InvalidRegion.NotExist	%s	The error message returned because the specified RegionId parameter does not exist. Check whether the region ID is correct.
403	LaunchTemplateLimitExceed	%s	The error message returned because the maximum number of launch templates has been reached.
403	LaunchTemplateName.Duplicated	%s	The error message returned because the specified LaunchTemplateName parameter already exists.
400	MissingParameter	%s	The error message returned because a required parameter is not specified.
400	InvalidParameter	%s	The error message returned because a specified parameter is invalid.
400	InvalidLaunchTemplateName.Malformed	The specified parameter LaunchTemplateName is not valid.	The error message returned because the specified LaunchTemplateName parameter is invalid.
400	InvalidDescription.Malformed	The specified parameter "VersionDescription" is not valid.	The error message returned because the specified VersionDescription parameter is invalid.
403	InnerServiceFailed	%s	The error message returned because an internal service failed to be called.
400	InvalidUserData.SizeExceeded	%s	The error message returned because the maximum size of the specified user data has been reached.
400	InvalidUserData.Base64FormatInvalid	%s	The error message returned because the specified UserData parameter is invalid. Select a valid data format.
400	Duplicate.TagKey	The Tag.N.Key contain duplicate key.	The error message returned because the specified tag key already exists. Tag keys must be unique.
400	InvalidTagKey.Malformed	The specified Tag.n.Key is not valid.	The error message returned because the specified Tag.N.Key parameter is invalid.
400	InvalidTagValue.Malformed	The specified Tag.n.Value is not valid.	The error message returned because the specified Tag.N.Value parameter is invalid.
403	QuotaExceed.Tags	%s	The error message returned because the maximum number of tags has been reached.

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