Raft Consensus

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
2. Built With
3. Getting Started
4. License
5. Contact

About The Project

An implementation of the raft consensus algorithm that includes:

• Leader Election
• Log replication
• Simple Client for testing

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Built With

• Python
• Protobuf
• gRPC

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Getting Started

Dependencies

First you will need to install the dependencies in the requirements.txt file by running the following command in your terminal.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then run the following code in the terminal

python3 -m grpc_tools.protoc raft.proto --proto_path=. --python_out=. --grpc_python_out=.

Testing

For testing you need to update the Config.conf file with the desired server addresses and ports. It follows the following schema: [id] [address] [port] Then you can run multiple servers in different terminals, for example:

gnome-terminal --window -x python3 client.py & gnome-terminal --window -x python3 server.py 0 & gnome-terminal --window -x python3 server.py 1 & gnome-terminal --window -x python3 server.py 2

This command will run the client and 3 servers with ids 0, 1, 2. in different terminal windows.

Then you can use the client terminal to run commands such as: [getleader, suspend, quit, getval, setval] Where: getleader: returns the current leader id and address suspend: takes one integer as an argument and suspends a server for that amount of time (in seconds) quit: terminates the client getval: takes one string as an argument and returns the value of the key with that key setval: takes a string and an integer as arguments and sets the value of the first key to the second value

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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Contact

Mosab Mohamed - @IVIosab - mosab.f.r@gmail.com

Project Link: https://github.com/IVIosab/raft

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