Creating Templates

Users with the Template Administrator role or above can create templates within Coder.

From a starter template

In most cases, it is best to start with a starter template.

From an existing template

You can duplicate an existing template in your Coder deployment. This will copy the template code and metadata, allowing you to make changes without affecting the original template.

From scratch (advanced)

There may be cases where you want to create a template from scratch. You can use any Terraform provider with Coder to create templates for additional clouds (e.g. Hetzner, Alibaba) or orchestrators (VMware, Proxmox) that we do not provide example templates for.

Refer to the following resources:

• Tutorial: Create a template from scratch
• Extending templates: Features and concepts around templates (agents, parameters, variables, etc)
• Coder Registry: Official and community templates for Coder
• Coder Terraform Provider Reference

Next steps

• Extending templates
• Managing templates