Jinja2 Infrastructure Template Engine

---
name: "Jinja2 Infrastructure Template Engine"
slug: "jinja2-infrastructure-template-engine"
description: "Generates infrastructure-as-code configurations from Jinja2 templates with variable inheritance. Produces Terraform HCL, Ansible playbooks, and Kubernetes manifests from shared parameter files using hierarchical environment overlays."
github_stars: 11585
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/pallets/jinja"
author: "Pallets"
category: "Templates & Workflows"
framework: "Gemini"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "pallets/jinja"
  github_stars: 11585
---

# Jinja2 Infrastructure Template Engine

Generates infrastructure-as-code configurations from Jinja2 templates with variable inheritance. Produces Terraform HCL, Ansible playbooks, and Kubernetes manifests from shared parameter files using hierarchical environment overlays.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python
- Templates are compiled to optimized Python code just-in-time and
- Jinja's philosophy is that while application logic belongs in Python if

- Source: https://github.com/pallets/jinja
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pallets/jinja/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/jinja2-infrastructure-template-engine/)