Facebook engineers open source 'cookbooks' for Chef framework

Facebook is opening up its cookbooks — but these recipes won’t taste good from the kitchen. Chef is Facebook’s engineering framework, and Facebook engineers have decided to open source that technology.

Phil Dobowitz, a Production Engineer at Facebook, blogged about the company opening up its cookbooks:

People have been amazingly supportive of the tools we released, the ideas we presented, and the changes we proposed. We released some tools we thought were useful to the community, but we didn’t consider releasing our cookbooks because we believed they were too Facebook-specific.

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