An online chess platform

Final Course Project UniCT 2022
Advanced Programming Languages
Distributed Systems and Big Data

• Backend written in Go using Gin web framework and Gorilla websockets. This monolithic component has been splitted in the following microservices:
  • User Service handles user signup, login and authentication. It also generates JWT Tokens for authorization in other microservices.
  • WebSocket Node handles WebSocket connections with clients.
  • Dispatcher routes messages from WS Nodes to Game and Challenge Services.
  • Challenge Service handles challenge sending and accepting.
  • Game Service handles games status, timer, legal moves, etc.
• Frontend written in C# using .NET Blazor WebAssembly
• Engine written in C++ using Pistache HTTP server. Bitboards were adopted for board representation while search logic was inspired by carnatus and sunfish.

• Monolithic Backend Version

  docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up
  

• Microservices w/ Kafka Version

  docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.kafka.yml up
  

You can try the application at https://localhost/.

Start minikube and install addons

minikube start
minikube addons enable ingress
minikube addons enable metrics-server

Build docker images

eval $(minikube -p minikube docker-env)
docker build -t chess_frontend ./frontend
docker build -t chess_user ./user
docker build -t chess_wsnode ./wsnode
docker build -t chess_game ./game
docker build -t chess_engine ./engine
docker build -t chess_challenge ./challenge
docker build -t chess_dispatcher ./dispatcher
docker build -t chess_forecaster ./forecaster
docker build -t chess_loadgenerator ./load_generator

Add Prometheus, requires Helm

helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack --set "grafana.plugins={grafana-simple-json-datasource,grafana-piechart-panel}"

Add Strimzi

kubectl apply -f 'https://strimzi.io/install/latest?namespace=default' -n default

Deploy

kubectl apply -f k8s

(Optional) Disable the load generator

kubectl delete -f k8s/60-deployment-loadgenerator.yaml

Append entries in /etc/hosts

echo "$(minikube ip) chess.example grafana.chess.example prometheus.chess.example" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

You can try the application at https://chess.example/.
The Grafana dashboard will be available at https://grafana.chess.example/d/Iahds4b7k.