# Configuration Templates Walkthrough

The full tour of configuration templates in Conduktor Console. We start from the YAML the platform team publishes, then show what a developer sees when they create a topic or a connector from a vetted template instead of a blank form.

## What You'll Learn

- How the platform team writes and publishes a template with the CLI or API
- What pre-fills the Create Topic form: partitions, replication, cleanup policy, retention, naming, and labels
- How connector templates take a JDBC sink from dozens of properties down to a few decisions
- Why placeholders keep your naming convention enforced at creation