Cloud task scheduling is a hot issue in the research of cloud computing. The cloud task scheduling method directly affects the overall performance of the cloud platform. A task scheduling method Template-Based Genetic Algorithm (TBGA) was proposed. Firstly, according to the processor's CPU speed, bandwidth and etc., the amount of tasks that should be allocated to each processor was calculated. andwas called allocation template. Secondly, according to the template, the tasks were combined into multiple subsets and finally each subset of tasks was allocated to the corresponding processor by using genetic algorithm. Experimental results show that the method can obtain shorter time scheduling for total tasks. TBGA reduced 20% of task set completion time compared with Min-Min algorithm and 30% of task set completion time compared with Genetic Algorithm (GA). Therefore, the TBGA is an effective task scheduling algorithm.