Fault-tolerant distributed lock with REST interface. Internaly, it uses PAXOS protocol to reach consensus on propagated values.

virtualenv --no-site-packages env
env/bin/pip install Twisted Logbook
# if you want to run unittests, do
env/bin/pip install mock

Run servers

./server.py configs.example_cluster.server1
./server.py configs.example_cluster.server2
./server.py configs.example_cluster.server3

Now you can:

• lock:

    curl -X POST -q http://127.0.0.1:9001/blah
  

• unlock

    curl -X POST -q http://127.0.0.1:9001/blah
  

• get server info:

    # status
    curl -q http://127.0.0.1:9001/info/status
    # or keys
    curl -q http://127.0.0.1:9001/info/keys
  

There are two types of tests: unittests and stresstests. Errors could be stochastic, that is because all tests need to be run more then once, to be sure that there is no errors.

# run whole testsuite ten times
./run-unittests.sh lock 10
# and now run consistency tests
./run-consistency-tests.sh 10

Alexander Artemenko (svetlyak.40wt@gmail.com) — initial author.

Feel free to fork the project and send me pull requests.