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Container Service for Kubernetes:CreateTemplate

Last Updated:Aug 28, 2026

Creates an orchestration template. An orchestration template defines and describes a group of Kubernetes resources. It declaratively describes the configuration of an application or how an application runs. You can use orchestration templates to manage resources in Kubernetes clusters and automate resource deployment, such as pods, Services, Deployments, ConfigMaps, and persistent volumes (PVs).

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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

cs:CreateTemplate

create

*All Resource

*

None None

Request syntax

POST /templates HTTP/1.1

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

body

object

No

The request body.

name

string

Yes

The name of the orchestration template.

The name must be 1 to 63 characters in length, and can contain digits, letters, and hyphens (-). It cannot start with a hyphen (-).

service-account-template

template

string

Yes

The template content in the YAML format.

apiVersion: v1\nkind: ServiceAccount\nmetadata:\n name: test-sa

tags

string

No

The label of the template.

test

description

string

No

The description of the template.

this is test

template_type

string

No

The template type.

  • If the parameter is set to kubernetes, the template is displayed on the Templates page in the console.

  • If this parameter is not specified or the value is set to another value, the template is not displayed on the Orchestration Template page in the console.

We recommend that you set the parameter to kubernetes.

kubernetes

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The response body.

template_id

string

The ID of the orchestration template.

ba1fe77b-b01e-4640-b77e-8f1b80******

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "template_id": "ba1fe77b-b01e-4640-b77e-8f1b80******"
}

Error codes

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.