Raft's Implementation

A brief overview

What has been described so far consists of the main specification of the Raft protocol. The paperD. Ongaro and J. Ousterhout, “In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm,” Proceedings of the 2014 USENIX Conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2014. contains more information on some other implementation details that will be covered briefly here.

Cluster membership changes can be performed using the same mechanisms by storing the cluster members in the same way regular data is stored.

An important note is that transition from an old configuration $C_{old}$ to a new configuration $C_{new}$ ...