diff --git a/crates/cuddle-clusters/src/process.rs b/crates/cuddle-clusters/src/process.rs
index 4b113b7..12f0dd7 100644
--- a/crates/cuddle-clusters/src/process.rs
+++ b/crates/cuddle-clusters/src/process.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use anyhow::Context;
+use minijinja::context;
 use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
 use tokio_stream::{wrappers::ReadDirStream, StreamExt};
 
@@ -167,7 +168,17 @@ async fn process_template_file(
         .ok_or(anyhow::anyhow!("file didn't have a jinja2 format"))?;
 
     let mut dest_file = tokio::fs::File::create(dest.join(file_name)).await?;
-    dest_file.write_all(file.as_bytes()).await?;
+
+    let mut env = minijinja::Environment::new();
+    env.add_template(file_name.to_str().unwrap_or_default(), &file)
+        .context(format!(
+            "failed to load template at: {}",
+            template_file.display()
+        ))?;
+    let tmpl = env.get_template(file_name.to_str().unwrap_or_default())?;
+    let rendered = tmpl.render(context! {})?;
+
+    dest_file.write_all(rendered.as_bytes()).await?;
 
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/crates/cuddle-clusters/tests/can_run_for_env/expected/dev/test.yaml b/crates/cuddle-clusters/tests/can_run_for_env/expected/dev/test.yaml
index 5418072..92dbfb6 100644
--- a/crates/cuddle-clusters/tests/can_run_for_env/expected/dev/test.yaml
+++ b/crates/cuddle-clusters/tests/can_run_for_env/expected/dev/test.yaml
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
   some = {
     thing = "some"
   }
-}
+}
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