# aws/opsworks-cookbooks

Chef Cookbooks for the AWS OpsWorks Service

Repository: https://github.com/aws/opsworks-cookbooks
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/opsworks-cookbooks
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-04-10T09:16:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4944, "days_push": 1241, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1043, forks 1191 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:20.980905+00:00)

## What it is
The official set of Chef cookbooks used by AWS OpsWorks for Chef versions 11.10, 11.4, and 0.9, providing built-in recipes and templates for services like Apache, Rails, and more. It serves as the reference source for overriding built-in templates and writing custom cookbooks compatible with OpsWorks.

## Use cases
- override built-in OpsWorks templates like apache vhost or rails database.yml
- write custom chef cookbooks for aws opsworks
- understand what recipes opsworks runs by default
- customize deployment recipes for chef 11.10 on opsworks
- find original cookbook sources for an opsworks stack

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy AWS OpsWorks stack on Chef 11.10 or earlier
- you need to override or extend the built-in OpsWorks cookbooks
- you want reference implementations of OpsWorks-compatible Chef recipes

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new infrastructure project - AWS OpsWorks is deprecated
- you use Chef 12 or later, which has no built-in cookbooks
- you want modern configuration management on AWS (use CloudFormation, CDK, or plain Chef/Ansible)

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: maintenance
- function: configuration-management, deployment
- domain: cloud-computing
- platform: cloud, self-hosted
- tags: chef, aws-opsworks, cookbooks, infrastructure-automation, deprecated-service, devops, automation, linux

## Member repositories
- aws/opsworks-cookbooks (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.980905+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:02:29.492933+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aws/opsworks-cookbooks (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.980905+00:00, sha c2829409f05c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.