The AWS OpsWorks Cookbooks repository provides the built-in Chef cookbooks used by the now-deprecated AWS OpsWorks Stacks service, a configuration-management and application-deployment service that used Chef (and optionally Puppet) to manage fleets of EC2 instances. These cookbooks implemented standard tasks such as package installation, web server configuration, database setup, Ruby/PHP/Java application deployment, and integration with AWS stack lifecycle events (setup, configure, deploy, shutdown). Customers could use these cookbooks as-is or extend/override them by supplying custom Chef recipes. Although OpsWorks Stacks reached end-of-life in May 2024, the repository remains valuable for teams still running legacy stacks or studying Chef automation patterns in an AWS context. ...