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Resource Orchestration Service:Integration overview

Last Updated:Sep 07, 2026

Integrate Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) with your systems through OpenAPI, Terraform, or ROS console customization.

OpenAPI integration

Resource Orchestration Service provides OpenAPI operations for stacks, resources, and resource scenarios that you can integrate into your business systems. Use OpenAPI.

OpenAPI version

Version

Description

2019-09-10

Recommended

Endpoints

ROS endpoints are not region-specific. They are determined by the ROS region of your Alibaba Cloud account.

ROS region

Public endpoint

VPC endpoint

China

ros.aliyuncs.com

ros.vpc-proxy.aliyuncs.com

Singapore

ros-intl.aliyuncs.com

ros-intl.vpc-proxy.aliyuncs.com

User identity

User identity

Supported

Alibaba Cloud account

Yes

RAM user (Recommended)

Yes

RAM role (Recommended)

Yes

We recommend using a RAM user or RAM role to call OpenAPI operations. Grant permissions based on your business requirements.

OpenAPI style

ROS uses the RPC style, which determines how you construct API calls. OpenAPI style.

Call methods

Call method

Supported

Remarks

Alibaba Cloud SDK

Yes

Supported languages and installation instructions: ROS SDK.

Additional code samples: SDK Examples.

Alibaba Cloud CLI

Yes

For example, run the aliyun ros ListResourceTypes --region cn-shanghai command to list all supported resource types.

Custom HTTP encapsulation

Yes

Requires manual request construction. Custom HTTP encapsulation.

We recommend using the Alibaba Cloud SDK to call OpenAPI operations.

ROS resource types

Resource Orchestration Service supports the following resource types.

Cloud service

Standard resources

Data source resources

Resource Orchestration Service

DATASOURCE::ROS::StackGroups: Queries the details of stack groups.

To learn how ROS automates resource creation and configuration, see What is Resource Orchestration Service?.

Terraform

Terraform supports the following Resource Orchestration Service resource types.

Cloud service

Resource type

Resource Orchestration Service

To automate resource creation and management with Terraform, see Terraform Overview and What is Alibaba Cloud Terraform?.

Console integration

Create automated integrations by customizing pages in the ROS console. Customize the Create Stack page in the ROS console.