Raft implementation in a distributed fashion

To install distraft you need to follow the steps below:

• Python 3.7+
• pip
• (Optional) virtualenv
• (Optional, for example cluster) Docker
• (Optional, for example cluster) docker-compose

• (Optional) Create and activate a virtual environment: virtalenv ./venv/ && source ./venv/bin/activate
• Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

All server configuration is done via environment variables, before running the server, modify the file: distraft-config.env to configure your server then to start the server run the following commands:

# Apply the environmental configurations:
source ./distraft-config.env

# Move to the distraft server:
cd ./distraft

# Start the server:
python server.py

Running in docker makes the bootstrapping of a 5-node cluster extremely easy, just make sure you have docker and docker-compose installed then run the following command:

# Start the 5-node cluster:
docker-compose up -d

Once the server is running here are some of the HTTP requests/commands you can use to interact with the server:

• Get the status of a specific node (e.g. 127.0.0.1:5001)

  • curl http://127.0.0.1:5001/
  • Returns a json message like the following:

  {
    "ok": true,
    "status": {
      "commit_index": 0,
      "id": "server1",
      "is_leader": false,
      "last_applied": 0,
      "last_log_index": 0,
      "last_log_term": 0,
      "leader": "default",
      "match_index": {},
      "members": {
        "default": [
          "127.0.0.1",
          9000,
          "127.0.0.1",
          5000
        ],
        "server1": [
          "127.0.0.1",
          9001,
          "127.0.0.1",
          5001
        ],
        "server2": [
          "127.0.0.1",
          9002,
          "127.0.0.1",
          5002
        ]
      },
      "next_index": {},
      "state": "Follower",
      "term": 1,
      "up": true
    }
  }
  

• Get the value of a key:

  • curl -L http://127.0.0.1:5001/<key>
  • Returns a json message like the following:

  {
      "ok": true,
      "key": "<key>",
      "value": "<value>"
  }
  

• Set the value of a key:

  • curl -L -XPOST --data 'value=<new_value>' http://127.0.0.1:5001/<key>
  • Returns a json message like the following:

  {
      "ok": true,
      "key": "<key>",
      "value": "<new_value>"
  }
  

• Stop a node (for testing purposes):

  • curl http://127.0.0.1:5001/stop
  • Returns a json message like the following:

  {"ok": true}
  

• Start a node (for testing purposes):

  • curl http://127.0.0.1:5001/start
  • Returns a json message like the following:

  {"ok": true}