Confab uses Jinja2’s environment to enumerate configuration file templates. Any valid Jinja2 environment may be provided as long as it uses a Loader that supports jinja2.Environment.list_templates(). By default, Confab uses a jinja2.FileSystemLoader.
Templates are loaded from a directory tree based on the selected component(s). For example, given the following directory structure:
/path/to/base_dir/templates/foo/etc/motd.tail
/path/to/base_dir/templates/foo/etc/hostname
/path/to/base_dir/templates/bar/etc/cron.d/baz
If the foo component is selected, /etc/motd.tail and /etc/hostname will be loaded; if the bar component is selected, only /etc/cron.d/baz will be loaded. Note that configuration file names and paths may also be templates.