Managing Meta's Linux Infrastructure

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This chapter explores the speaker's role at Meta, focusing on the management of the company's Linux distribution, particularly the use of CentOS and Fedora. Discussion includes the challenges of OS upgrades, the transition to a rolling release model, and the complexities of managing container environments along with a proprietary container scheduler. Insights into automation processes, logging within containers, and dynamic resource allocation are also provided, highlighting the intricacies of operating at such a large scale.

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