hairyhenderson/gomplate

A flexible commandline tool for template rendering. Supports lots of local and remote datasources.

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gomplate is a template renderer which supports a growing list of datasources, such as: JSON (including EJSON - encrypted JSON), YAML, AWS EC2 metadata, Hashicorp Consul and Hashicorp Vault secrets.

Come chat with developers and community in the #gomplate channel on Gophers Slack and on GitHub Discussions!

Here are some hands-on examples of how gomplate works:

$ # at its most basic, gomplate can be used with environment variables...
$ echo 'Hello, {{ .Env.USER }}' | gomplate
Hello, hairyhenderson

$ # but that's kind of boring. gomplate has tons of functions to do useful stuff, too
$ gomplate -i 'the answer is: {{ mul 6 7 }}'
the answer is: 42

$ # and, since gomplate uses Go's templating syntax, you can do fun things like:
$ gomplate -i '{{ range seq 5 1 }}{{ . }} {{ if eq . 1 }}{{ "blastoff" | toUpper }}{{ end }}{{ end }}'
5 4 3 2 1 BLASTOFF

$ # the real fun comes when you use datasources!
$ cat ./config.yaml
foo:
  bar:
    baz: qux
$ gomplate -d config=./config.yaml -i 'the value we want is: {{ (datasource "config").foo.bar.baz }}'
the value we want is: qux

$ # datasources are defined by URLs, and gomplate is not limited to just file-based datasources:
$ gomplate -d ip=https://ipinfo.io -i 'country code: {{ (ds "ip").country }}'
country code: CA

$ # standard input can be used as a datasource too:
$ echo '{"cities":["London", "Johannesburg", "Windhoek"]}' | gomplate -d city=stdin:///in.json -i '{{ range (ds "city").cities }}{{.}}, {{end}}'
London, Johannesburg, Windhoek, 

$ # and here's something a little more complicated:
$ export CITIES='city: [London, Johannesburg, Windhoek]'
$ cat in.tmpl
{{ range $i, $city := (ds "cities").city -}}
{{ add 1 $i }}: {{ include "weather" (print $city "?0") }}
{{ end }}
$ gomplate -d 'cities=env:///CITIES?type=application/yaml' -d 'weather=https://wttr.in/?0' -H 'weather=User-Agent: curl' -f in.tmpl
1: Weather report: London

    \  /       Partly cloudy
  _ /"".-.     4-7 °C
    \_(   ).   ↑ 20 km/h
    /(___(__)  10 km
               0.0 mm

2: Weather report: Johannesburg

    \  /       Partly cloudy
  _ /"".-.     15 °C
    \_(   ).   ↘ 0 km/h
    /(___(__)  10 km
               2.2 mm

3: Weather report: Windhoek

    \  /       Partly cloudy
  _ /"".-.     20 °C
    \_(   ).   ↑ 6 km/h
    /(___(__)  20 km
               0.0 mm

Read the documentation at docs.gomplate.ca, and join the discussion in GitHub Discussions!

Please report any bugs found in the issue tracker.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Dave Henderson

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hairyhenderson/gomplate

A flexible commandline tool for template rendering. Supports lots of local and remote datasources.

Go

3,212

2,668 commits

updated Oct 11, 2026

See the code

README

gomplate logo

Read the docs at docs.gomplate.ca, chat with developers and community in the #gomplate channel on Gophers Slack

Build Go Report Card Codebeat Status Coverage Total Downloads CII Best Practices

DockerHub Pulls

Chocolatey Chocolatey

Install Docs Slack Discussions

gomplate is a template renderer which supports a growing list of datasources, such as: JSON (including EJSON - encrypted JSON), YAML, AWS EC2 metadata, Hashicorp Consul and Hashicorp Vault secrets.

Come chat with developers and community in the #gomplate channel on Gophers Slack and on GitHub Discussions!

Here are some hands-on examples of how gomplate works:

$ # at its most basic, gomplate can be used with environment variables...
$ echo 'Hello, {{ .Env.USER }}' | gomplate
Hello, hairyhenderson

$ # but that's kind of boring. gomplate has tons of functions to do useful stuff, too
$ gomplate -i 'the answer is: {{ mul 6 7 }}'
the answer is: 42

$ # and, since gomplate uses Go's templating syntax, you can do fun things like:
$ gomplate -i '{{ range seq 5 1 }}{{ . }} {{ if eq . 1 }}{{ "blastoff" | toUpper }}{{ end }}{{ end }}'
5 4 3 2 1 BLASTOFF

$ # the real fun comes when you use datasources!
$ cat ./config.yaml
foo:
  bar:
    baz: qux
$ gomplate -d config=./config.yaml -i 'the value we want is: {{ (datasource "config").foo.bar.baz }}'
the value we want is: qux

$ # datasources are defined by URLs, and gomplate is not limited to just file-based datasources:
$ gomplate -d ip=https://ipinfo.io -i 'country code: {{ (ds "ip").country }}'
country code: CA

$ # standard input can be used as a datasource too:
$ echo '{"cities":["London", "Johannesburg", "Windhoek"]}' | gomplate -d city=stdin:///in.json -i '{{ range (ds "city").cities }}{{.}}, {{end}}'
London, Johannesburg, Windhoek, 

$ # and here's something a little more complicated:
$ export CITIES='city: [London, Johannesburg, Windhoek]'
$ cat in.tmpl
{{ range $i, $city := (ds "cities").city -}}
{{ add 1 $i }}: {{ include "weather" (print $city "?0") }}
{{ end }}
$ gomplate -d 'cities=env:///CITIES?type=application/yaml' -d 'weather=https://wttr.in/?0' -H 'weather=User-Agent: curl' -f in.tmpl
1: Weather report: London

    \  /       Partly cloudy
  _ /"".-.     4-7 °C
    \_(   ).   ↑ 20 km/h
    /(___(__)  10 km
               0.0 mm

2: Weather report: Johannesburg

    \  /       Partly cloudy
  _ /"".-.     15 °C
    \_(   ).   ↘ 0 km/h
    /(___(__)  10 km
               2.2 mm

3: Weather report: Windhoek

    \  /       Partly cloudy
  _ /"".-.     20 °C
    \_(   ).   ↑ 6 km/h
    /(___(__)  20 km
               0.0 mm

Read the documentation at docs.gomplate.ca, and join the discussion in GitHub Discussions!

Please report any bugs found in the issue tracker.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Dave Henderson

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