Hungry for Server-Management Ideas? Facebook Open-Sources Chef Cookbooks

Facebook production engineer Phil Dibowitz dedicated a post on the social network’s engineering blog to Chef and cookbooks, but the recipes he was sharing had nothing to do with food.

ChefHat650Facebook production engineer Phil Dibowitz dedicated a post on the social network’s engineering blog to Chef and cookbooks, but the recipes he was sharing had nothing to do with food.

Dibowitz posted about Chef, the core of the system Facebook uses to manage its hundreds of thousands of servers globally, and about open-sourcing documents, example cookbooks and other related tools. He wrote:

Last year we began speaking at conferences around the world about our approach to managing hundreds of thousands of servers.

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