raft-blockchain

My own implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm. For now nodes can elect a leader and receive empty heartbeats from it.

Description of the raft algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(computer_science)

https://raft.github.io/

http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

What is not implemented yet

By the Raft specification, a node becomes a leader when it gets votes from majority. For now, after the node announces an election, it does not count the number of votes it receives and thinks that it's a leader when it receives at least one vote.

Usage

-Build a node

go build

-Run a node

./raft-blockchain <host:port> <file_with_other_nodes_in_the_network>

To quickly run 3 nodes:

cd config

./runNode1.sh

Open 2 more terminals and run ./runNode2.sh and ./runNode3.sh respectively