The Chess App is a dynamic web application that allows users to play chess online. Built using JavaScript, it features a split architecture with separate frontend and backend components, along with a MongoDB database. The entire application is containerized using Docker, ensuring a consistent and isolated environment for each component.

• JavaScript: The core programming language for both frontend and backend.
• MongoDB: Our choice for the database, storing game data and user information.
• Docker: Utilized for containerizing the frontend, backend, and MongoDB database.
• Helm: Employed for installing and managing the application in Kubernetes clusters.
• Terraform: Used for provisioning and managing the AWS infrastructure, including VPC and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).

Our project incorporates several key DevOps methodologies and practices:

• Containerization: Using Docker to ensure consistency across different environments.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Implemented with GitHub Actions. The CI workflow is activated based on the chosen image (frontend, backend, or MongoDB), building the Docker image, uploading it to DockerHub, and tagging it using a '0.0.1-short SHA' logic.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform scripts are in place to bootstrap the AWS infrastructure, including setting up VPC and EKS, to ensure a repeatable and automated infrastructure provisioning process.