# renderer modules

Important

Jinja supports a secure, sandboxed template execution environment that Salt takes advantage of. Other text Renderers do not support this functionality, so Salt highly recommends usage of `jinja` / `jinja|yaml`.

`aws_kms` |
`cheetah` | Cheetah Renderer for Salt
`dson` | DSON Renderer for Salt
`genshi` | Genshi Renderer for Salt
`gpg` | Renderer that will decrypt GPG ciphers
`hjson` | hjson renderer for Salt
`jinja` | Jinja loading utils to enable a more powerful backend for jinja templates
`json` | JSON Renderer for Salt
`json5` | JSON5 Renderer for Salt
`mako` | Mako Renderer for Salt
`msgpack` |
`nacl` | Renderer that will decrypt NACL ciphers
`pass` | Pass Renderer for Salt
`py` | Pure python state renderer
`pydsl` | A Python-based DSL
`pyobjects` | Python renderer that includes a Pythonic Object based interface
`stateconf` | A flexible renderer that takes a templating engine and a data format
`tomlmod` |
`wempy` |
`yaml` | YAML Renderer for Salt
`yamlex` |