What is the significance of the default directory under chef cookbook /templates?

What is the significance of the default directory under chef cookbook /templates?

A cookbook is frequently designed to work across many platforms and is often required to distribute a specific template to a specific platform. This is a New in Chef Client 12.0. A cookbook can be designed to support the distribution of templates across platforms, while ensuring that the correct template ends up on each system.

/host-$fqdn/$source

/$platform-$platform_version/$source

/$platform/$source

/default/$source

/$source

template ‘/test’ do

  source [“#{node.chef_environment}.erb”, ‘default.erb’]

end

template ‘/test’ do

  source %W{

    host-#{node[‘fqdn’]}/test.erb

    #{node[‘platform’]}-#{node[‘platform_version’]}/test.erb

    #{node[‘platform’]}/test.erb

    default/test.erb

  }

end

/templates/

  windows-6.2

  windows-6.1

  windows-6.0

  windows

  default

template ‘C:\path\to\file\text_file.txt’ do

  source ‘text_file.txt’

  mode ‘0755’

  owner ‘root’

  group ‘root’

end

/templates

  windows-6.2/text_file.txt

  windows-6.1/text_file.txt

  windows-6.0/text_file.txt

  windows/text_file.txt

  default/text_file.txt

Reference
https://docs.chef.io/resource_template.html