diff --git a/dask_sphinx_theme/ext/dask_config_sphinx_ext.py b/dask_sphinx_theme/ext/dask_config_sphinx_ext.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea54989
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dask_sphinx_theme/ext/dask_config_sphinx_ext.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import requests
+import yaml
+from docutils import nodes
+from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive, directives
+
+
+def get_remote_yaml(url):
+    r = requests.get(url)
+    return yaml.safe_load(r.text)
+
+
+class DaskConfigDirective(Directive):
+
+    option_spec = {
+        "location": directives.unchanged,
+        "schema": directives.uri,
+        "config": directives.uri,
+    }
+
+    def run(self):
+        location = self.options["location"]
+        config = self.options["config"]
+        schema = self.options["schema"]
+
+        config = get_remote_yaml(config)
+        schema = get_remote_yaml(schema)
+
+        for k in location.split("."):
+            # dask config does not have a top level key
+            # we need to pass full schema and config
+            if k == "dask":
+                schema = schema
+                config = config
+            else:
+                config = config[k]
+                schema = schema["properties"].get(k, {})
+        html = generate_html(config, schema, location)
+        return [nodes.raw("", html, format="html")]
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_directive("dask-config-block", DaskConfigDirective)
+
+    return {
+        "version": "0.1",
+        "parallel_read_safe": True,
+        "parallel_write_safe": True,
+    }
+
+
+def dask_config_to_html(key, value, schema, prefix=""):
+    if isinstance(value, dict):
+        return sum(
+            (
+                dask_config_to_html(
+                    k,
+                    v,
+                    schema.get("properties", {}).get(k, {"properties": {}}),
+                    prefix=prefix + key + ".",
+                )
+                for k, v in value.items()
+            ),
+            [],
+        )
+
+    else:
+
+        try:
+            description = schema["description"]
+            description = description.strip()
+        except KeyError:
+            description = "No Comment"
+
+        if "dask." in prefix:
+            prefix = prefix.replace("dask.", "")
+
+        key = prefix + key
+        value = str(value)
+        node = f"""<dl class="py data">
+                     <dt id="{key}">
+                       <code class="sig-prename descclassname">{key}</code>
+                       <em class="property">&nbsp;&nbsp;{value}</p></em>
+                       <a class="headerlink" href="#{key}" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a>
+                     </dt>
+                    <dd><p>{description}</p></dd>
+                    </dl>
+
+                """
+        return [node]
+
+
+def generate_html(config, schema, location):
+    nested_html = dask_config_to_html(
+        key="", value=config, schema=schema, prefix=location
+    )
+    return "".join(nested_html)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d32cf5c..79c607e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 sphinx-book-theme==0.2.0
+jsonschema
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 16f79ce..4023ca4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
             "static/images/*.ico",
             "static/js/*.js",
             "static/font/*.*",
+            "ext/*",
         ]
     },
     include_package_data=True,