diff --git a/config/loader.go b/config/loader.go
index 06057f690c..82f5b0a0d3 100644
--- a/config/loader.go
+++ b/config/loader.go
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Load loads the Terraform configuration from a given file.
+//
+// This file can be any format that Terraform recognizes, and import any
+// other format that Terraform recognizes.
 func Load(path string) (*Config, error) {
 	importTree, err := loadTree(path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -19,19 +22,31 @@ func Load(path string) (*Config, error) {
 	return configTree.Flatten()
 }
 
-
+// configurable is an interface that must be implemented by any configuration
+// formats of Terraform in order to return a *Config.
 type configurable interface {
 	Config() (*Config, error)
 }
 
+// importTree is the result of the first-pass load of the configuration
+// files. It is a tree of raw configurables and then any children (their
+// imports).
+//
+// An importTree can be turned into a configTree.
 type importTree struct {
 	Path     string
 	Raw      configurable
 	Children []*importTree
 }
 
+// This is the function type that must be implemented by the configuration
+// file loader to turn a single file into a configurable and any additional
+// imports.
 type fileLoaderFunc func(path string) (configurable, []string, error)
 
+// loadTree takes a single file and loads the entire importTree for that
+// file. This function detects what kind of configuration file it is an
+// executes the proper fileLoaderFunc.
 func loadTree(root string) (*importTree, error) {
 	c, imps, err := loadFileLibucl(root)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -55,6 +70,8 @@ func loadTree(root string) (*importTree, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
+// ConfigTree traverses the importTree and turns each node into a *Config
+// object, ultimately returning a *configTree.
 func (t *importTree) ConfigTree() (*configTree, error) {
 	config, err := t.Raw.Config()
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/config/loader_libucl.go b/config/loader_libucl.go
index 895548b308..66aac9fe9f 100644
--- a/config/loader_libucl.go
+++ b/config/loader_libucl.go
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import (
 // equally behaving parsing everywhere.
 const libuclParseFlags = libucl.ParserKeyLowercase
 
+// libuclConfigurable is an implementation of configurable that knows
+// how to turn libucl configuration into a *Config object.
 type libuclConfigurable struct {
 	Object *libucl.Object
 }
@@ -43,6 +45,8 @@ func (t *libuclConfigurable) Config() (*Config, error) {
 	return config, nil
 }
 
+// loadFileLibucl is a fileLoaderFunc that knows how to read libucl
+// files and turn them into libuclConfigurables.
 func loadFileLibucl(root string) (configurable, []string, error) {
 	var obj *libucl.Object = nil