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Service Catalog:CreateTemplate

Last Updated:Jul 25, 2025

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

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
servicecatalog:CreateTemplatecreate
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
TemplateBodystringYes

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": {} }
TemplateTypestringYes

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
TerraformVariablesarray<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.
objectNo
VariableNamestringNo

The name of the variable.

instance_type
DescriptionstringNo

The description of the variable.

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

{ "Label": { "en": "Instance Type" }, "AllowedValues": \[ "ecs.s6-c1m1.small", "ecs.s6-c1m2.large", "ecs.s6-c1m2.xlarge" ] }

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object

The response parameters.

RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

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

The URL of the template.

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

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

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

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError message
500InternalErrorA system error occurred.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change timeSummary of changesOperation
2023-09-28The request parameters of the API has changedView Change Details