Jinja2

External

• https://medium.com/knoldus/jinja2-template-the-modern-design-friendly-templating-engine-a9218fec96e5
• https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.11.x/
• https://pypi.org/project/Jinja2/

Internal

• Templating in Python
• Templating

Programming Model

Find out what the latest version is from https://pypi.org/project/Jinja2/

Then add this to your requirements.txt

jinja2 == 3.0.3

Once the virtual environment is updated, use it as such:

from pathlib import Path
from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader

template_dir = Path('...')
yaml = Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader(template_dir))\
  .get_template('my-template.yaml.j2') \
  .render(variable_1='some value', variable2='some other value')

Templating Language

Variable

raw content followed by {{ variable1 }}

Whitespace Management

 {{-

 -}}

 {%-

 -%}