1. At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the computer system also including a computing component having a cloud interface module, the computer system within a customer premise and connected to an on premise cluster, a cloud management service, and a resource cloud, a method for using templates to configure cloud resources, the method comprising: an act of accessing account data for a customer that is to use resources in the resource cloud; an act of populating a cloud node template with the accessed account data; an act of receiving commands for deploying resources in the resource cloud; an act of referring to the cloud node template to access relevant account data for the customer; an act of formulating a deployment for use in the resource cloud, the deployment representing the user commands in accordance with the relevant account data for the customer; and an act of submitting the deployment to the cloud management service.