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    Cloud Architect Design Tools:Create a custom template

    Last Updated:Jun 23, 2026

    You can save a Cloud Architect Design Tools (CADT) application as a custom template for reuse.

    Create a CADT application

    1. Log on to the CADT console.

    2. Click New > Application.

    3. This example shows how to create a simple ECS application. In the Quick Create panel, drag the Single Region, Single Zone network topology onto the canvas.

    4. In the product search box on the left, enter ECS. From the search results, select ECS and drag it onto the vSwitch on the canvas.

    5. Configure the parameters for the region, VPC, vSwitch, and ECS instance.

      1. Double-click the Region component. In the properties panel on the right, set Region to China (Beijing). The region name in the upper-left corner of the canvas updates to the selected region.

      2. Double-click the VPC component. In the properties panel, set Purchase Method to Create New, VPC Name to vpc-bj, and CIDR block to 192.168.0.0/16.

      3. Double-click the vSwitch component. In the properties panel, set Purchase Method to Create New, vSwitch Name to vswitch-h, Availability Zone to China (Beijing) Zone H, and IPv4 CIDR block to 192.168.10.0/24 (252 available IP addresses).

      4. Double-click the ECS component and configure its parameters as described in the following table. For other parameters, you can keep the default values or change them as needed.

        Parameter

        Description

        Purchase method

        Create New

        Availability zone

        Defaults to the availability zone of the vSwitch that contains the ECS instance.

        Quantity

        1

        Payment method

        pay-as-you-go

        Instance type

        ecs.c5.large (2 vCPU, 4 GiB)

        Image

        Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS 64-bit

        System disk type

        ESSD cloud disk

        System disk capacity

        40 GiB

        Performance level

        PL0

        Instance name

        ecs

        Login credentials

        Set a custom password.

    6. After you configure all the resources, click Save. In the dialog box that appears, set Application Name and click OK.

    Save the application as a custom template

    1. In the top navigation bar, click Application > My Applications.

    2. In the My Applications list, find your application and click Save as Template.

    3. In the Save as Template dialog box, configure the following parameters and click OK.

      Parameter

      Description

      Template name

      The name of the custom template. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length, start with a letter or a Chinese character, and can contain digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-).

      Region tag

      The region to associate with the template.

      Set as default template

      If selected, this template is used by default when you create an application.

    4. After the template is saved, click New > My solution > Template to view the custom template. You can click the template card to open a menu with actions such as Create Application from Template, Edit Template, Copy Template, Share Template, Delete Template, View Template Variables, and View Configurable Properties.