Facebook Chef cookbooks

What this post added

This post announces the open-sourcing of 14 internal Facebook Chef cookbooks, providing a standardized and hierarchical approach to server configuration management. It details the history of their involvement with Chef, the refactoring of core cookbooks for generic use, and provides a quick start guide and examples of how to leverage these cookbooks for managing system settings like sysctls, limits, log rotation, and fstab entries. The contribution aims to enable other organizations to adopt Facebook's model of Chef for easier and faster server setup.