Development of a cluster of LXC containers

The consensus algorithms were designed to reach agreements in distributed systems trying to maintain a certain tolerance to failures. An application derived from these algorithms is ETCD, a type of key-value storage that provides a safe and reliable way to save data shared in a network of servers, allowing the preser- vation of the information in spite of the possible fall of the involved nodes . My thesis shows the design and operation of these algorithms, and addresses the question of how to man- age the ETCD database and which features involves, as well as recommendations of configuration settings to achieve the best performance of the system. Finally, an academic practice is presented, aimed to network students that would want to have a deeper knowledge about consensus algorithms applications in a distributed system