A renderer in Salt is used to transform data types described in SaLt State files (SLS) into Python to be consumed and handled by Salt. A common example is an SLS file rendered into a Jinja template and then parsed as a YAML document. There are a few different combinations currently supported:

• Jinja and YAML
• Mako and YAML
• Wempy and YAML
• Jinja and JSON
• Mako and JSON
• Wempy and JSON