Raft consensus

Raft consensus protocol and implementation in Kotlin

Raft consensus API

Defines raft node behavior and logic

Raft Spring implementation

Implementation of the raft consensus api using spring boot

Build

cd raft-consensus-impl
../gradlew clean build -x test

Run

../gradlew bootRun

Raft vertx implementation

Implementation of the raft consensus api using vert.x
Each verticle can be spawned as a raft node
Cluster management is handled by vert.x

Checkout

git checkout raft-consensus-vertx

Build

cd raft-consensus-vertx-impl
../gradlew clean build -x test

Run

java -jar build/libs/raft-consensus-vertx-impl-1.0-SNAPSHOT-fat.jar -cluster -Dhttp_port=8080
java -jar build/libs/raft-consensus-vertx-impl-1.0-SNAPSHOT-fat.jar -cluster -Dhttp_port=8081
java -jar build/libs/raft-consensus-vertx-impl-1.0-SNAPSHOT-fat.jar -cluster -Dhttp_port=8082

This creates 3 verticles which communicate using the vert.x eventbus.
HTTP services are exposed for convenience.