Creating a Stack from a Template

• Console
• CLI
• API

• 1. On the Stacks list page, select Create stack. If you need help finding the list page or the stack, see Listing Stacks.
  2. On the Create stack page, under Choose the origin of the Terraform configuration, select Template.
  3. Under Stack configuration, select Select template.
  4. In the Browse templates panel, select the template you want and then select Select template.
     Private templates are under the Private tab.
     The page is populated with information contained in the Terraform configuration.
  5. (Optional) To use custom providers, select Use custom providers and then select the bucket that contains the custom provider.
  6. (Optional) Edit the default stack name and enter a stack description. Avoid entering confidential information.
  7. Select the compartment that you want to store the stack in.
  8. To add a defined tag, select the namespace and key, then enter a value.
  9. To add a free-form tag, enter a key and value.
  10. Select Next.
  11. In the Configure variables panel, review the variables listed from the Terraform configuration and change as needed.
      Important
      
      Don't add your private key or other confidential information to configuration variables.
  12. Select Next.
  13. In the Review panel, verify the stack configuration.
  14. (Optional) To automatically provision resources on creation of the stack, select Run apply.
  15. Select Create.

  The stack is created and its details page opens.

  If you selected Run apply, then Resource Manager runs the apply action on the new stack.

• Use the oci resource-manager stack create-from-template command and required parameters to create a stack from a template.

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  oci resource-manager stack create-from-template --compartment-id <compartment_OCID> --template-id <template_OCID>

  For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference for Resource Manager.

• Use the CreateStack operation to create a stack from a template.

  For an example of the configSource part of the request, see CreateStackTemplateConfigSourceDetails.