diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..515fbc602d90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/raft-canonical/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, file, libuv }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "raft-canonical";
+  version = "0.9.6";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "canonical";
+    repo = "raft";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "083il7b5kw3pc7m5p9xjpb9dlvfarc51sni92mkgm9ckc32x9vpp";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook file pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ libuv ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    substituteInPlace configure --replace /usr/bin/ " "
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false;
+  # Due to
+  #io_uv_recv/success/first                                    [ ERROR ]
+  #Error: test/lib/dir.c:97: No such file or directory
+  #Error: child killed by signal 6 (Aborted)
+
+  outputs = [ "dev" "out" ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = ''
+      Fully asynchronous C implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
+    '';
+    longDescription = ''
+      The library has modular design: its core part implements only the core
+      Raft algorithm logic, in a fully platform independent way. On top of
+      that, a pluggable interface defines the I/O implementation for networking
+      (send/receive RPC messages) and disk persistence (store log entries and
+      snapshots).
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://github.com/canonical/raft";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.wucke13 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 97fd3099fbf6..6ef03f7b1fa8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13442,6 +13442,8 @@ in
 
   rabbitmq-c = callPackage ../development/libraries/rabbitmq-c {};
 
+  raft-canonical = callPackage ../development/libraries/raft-canonical { };
+
   range-v3 = callPackage ../development/libraries/range-v3 {};
 
   rabbitmq-java-client = callPackage ../development/libraries/rabbitmq-java-client {};