Distributed-Game-Server

An implementation of the Raft Consensus algorithm for the Cornell Data Science Distributed Game Server project.\

Run Directory Server

• Run cargo run --bin directory, which will host the directory web server at localhost:8000.

Run Raft Node

• First, declare the list of peer IP addresses in data/peers.txt, one on each line.
• To run a Raft node at a certain port, run cargo run --bin node <port> localhost from any directory.
• Type 'start' when prompted to start up the node and connect to its peers.

Run Raft Client

• First, declare the list of peer IP addresses in data/peers.txt, one on each line.
• Run cargo run --bin client from any directory.

Tests

• To run the tests, run cargo test from any directory.

Dependencies

protobuf3

Mac

brew install protobuf

Ubuntu

apt-get protobuf-compiler on Ubuntu may not get the right version. Install a precompiled binary of version 3.15.8+ from https://grpc.io/docs/protoc-installation/

reqwest depends on openssl which may require installing additional tooling https://docs.rs/openssl/0.10.16/openssl/#automatic