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# Templates

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**LINUX AND WINDOWS INFRASTRUCTURE**

Experiment templates are now supported for Linux and Windows v2 infrastructure. You can create and manage experiment templates, create experiments from templates, and run those experiments. However, running Machine/Linux experiments from a pipeline and using step templates with machine experiment templates are currently not supported.
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**Templates** are reusable, pre-configured components that help you standardize and accelerate your chaos engineering practices. Templates provide a foundation for creating consistent experiments across your organization while maintaining flexibility for customization.

You can create experiments, faults, probes, and actions in two ways:

* **Direct Creation**: Create them directly through their specific sections for one-time use
* **Template-Based Creation**: Create them from templates when you need reusable, standardized configurations across multiple experiments

Templates allow you to:

* Standardize chaos engineering practices across teams
* Reduce experiment creation time with pre-built components
* Ensure best practices and consistent configurations
* Share proven patterns across projects and environments
* Maintain version control for your chaos engineering assets

### Template Scopes <a href="#template-scopes" id="template-scopes"></a>

Templates can be managed at different organizational levels:

* **Account Level**: Highest scope - accessible across all accounts, organizations, and projects
* **Organization Level**: Available across organizations and their projects
* **Project Level**: Available within a specific project only

{% @harness-package-selector/package-selector platforms="%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%22Fault%20Template%22%2C%22slug%22%3A%22fault-template%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22resilience-testing%2Fchaos-testing%2Ftemplates%2Ffault-template-templates%22%7D%2C%7B%22label%22%3A%22Probe%20Template%22%2C%22slug%22%3A%22probe-template%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22resilience-testing%2Fchaos-testing%2Ftemplates%2Fprobe-template-templates%22%7D%2C%7B%22label%22%3A%22Action%20Template%22%2C%22slug%22%3A%22action-template%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22resilience-testing%2Fchaos-testing%2Ftemplates%2Faction-template-templates%22%7D%2C%7B%22label%22%3A%22Experiment%20Template%22%2C%22slug%22%3A%22experiment-template%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22resilience-testing%2Fchaos-testing%2Ftemplates%2Fexperiment-template-templates%22%7D%5D" %}

### Next Steps <a href="#next-steps" id="next-steps"></a>

* [Create your first experiment](/resilience-testing/chaos-testing/experiments.md)
* [Explore Fault Templates](/resilience-testing/chaos-engineering/faults/custom-faults/custom-fault-templates.md)
* [Understand Actions](/resilience-testing/chaos-testing/actions.md)