Project proposal: DevOps pipeline for a todo web application with GitOps deployment

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+# Assignment Proposal
+
+## Title
+
+DevOps pipeline for a todo web application with GitOps deployment
+
+## Names and KTH ID
+
+  - Harry Eriksson (guerikss@kth.se)
+  - Villiam Riegler (villiamr@kth.se)
+
+## Deadline
+
+- Task 3
+
+## Category
+
+- Project
+
+## Description
+
+We will build a small todo web application and set up a complete DevOps pipeline around it. The application
+lets users create, complete and delete todo items, which are persisted in a PostgreSQL database running as a
+sidecar container next to the application.
+
+- **CI:** GitHub Actions runs tests on every pull request, and builds and pushes a container image to GitHub
+  Container Registry on merge to main.
+- **CD:** After the image is pushed, a CI job updates the image tag in the Kubernetes manifests in the
+  repository. Argo CD watches these manifests and deploys the new release image to the cluster.
+- **IaC:** Terraform creates a local Kubernetes cluster (kind) and installs Argo CD into it.
+- **Development platform:** GitHub with branch protection.
+- **Quality/security automation:** Dependabot for dependency updates.
+
+**Relevance:** The project applies the core DevOps practices from the course, continuous integration, continuous
+delivery, infrastructure as code and security automation, to a working application in one integrated workflow.
+Using Argo CD gives us a pull-based CD model where the cluster state is defined in the repository, and Terraform
+makes the whole environment reproducible with a single command.