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What is Testcontainers?

Testcontainers is an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that can run in a Docker container.

Implementations

Testcontainers is available for the following languages:

Community Projects

Modules Catalog

Testcontainers offers modules with preconfigured implementations for popular services such as databases, message brokers, and more. Find the full list of modules in the Testcontainers Module Catalog. If you own a Testcontainers module implementation, please submit it to the catalog by creating a pull request to this repository.

Getting Started

To get started with Testcontainers, please refer to the What is Testcontainers, and why should you use it? guide. We recommend you to start with the Getting Started guide.

How to start?

Testcontainers Desktop

Testcontainers Desktop is a free companion app for the open source Testcontainers libraries that enriches the Testcontainers user-experience makes local development and testing with real dependencies even simpler. Read more about Testcontainers Desktop in the documentation.

Try it following the Simple local development with Testcontainers Desktop guide.

Or watch the quick video introduction:

Introducing Testcontainers Desktop

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  1. testcontainers-java testcontainers-java Public

    Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

    Java 8.1k 1.7k

  2. testcontainers-dotnet testcontainers-dotnet Public

    A library to support tests with throwaway instances of Docker containers for all compatible .NET Standard versions.

    C# 3.9k 300

  3. testcontainers-go testcontainers-go Public

    Testcontainers for Go is a Go package that makes it simple to create and clean up container-based dependencies for automated integration/smoke tests. The clean, easy-to-use API enables developers t…

    Go 3.8k 518

  4. testcontainers-node testcontainers-node Public

    Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

    TypeScript 2k 204

  5. testcontainers-python testcontainers-python Public

    Testcontainers is a Python library that providing a friendly API to run Docker container. It is designed to create runtime environment to use during your automatic tests.

    Python 1.7k 300

  6. testcontainers-rs testcontainers-rs Public

    A library for integration-testing against docker containers from within Rust.

    Rust 816 144

Repositories

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  • testcontainers-rs Public

    A library for integration-testing against docker containers from within Rust.

    testcontainers/testcontainers-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 816 Apache-2.0 144 17 (4 issues need help) 2 Updated Feb 7, 2025
  • testcontainers-dotnet Public

    A library to support tests with throwaway instances of Docker containers for all compatible .NET Standard versions.

    testcontainers/testcontainers-dotnet’s past year of commit activity
    C# 3,923 MIT 300 42 (1 issue needs help) 25 Updated Feb 7, 2025
  • testcontainers-elixir Public

    Testcontainers is an Elixir library that supports ExUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

    testcontainers/testcontainers-elixir’s past year of commit activity
    Elixir 120 MIT 20 6 (2 issues need help) 1 Updated Feb 6, 2025
  • testcontainers-php Public

    https://www.testcontainers.org implementation for PHP

    testcontainers/testcontainers-php’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 109 MIT 19 7 0 Updated Feb 6, 2025
  • testcontainers-go Public

    Testcontainers for Go is a Go package that makes it simple to create and clean up container-based dependencies for automated integration/smoke tests. The clean, easy-to-use API enables developers to programmatically define containers that should be run as part of a test and clean up those resources when the test is done.

    testcontainers/testcontainers-go’s past year of commit activity
    Go 3,829 MIT 518 89 (4 issues need help) 32 Updated Feb 6, 2025
  • testcontainers-node Public

    Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

    testcontainers/testcontainers-node’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 2,012 MIT 204 33 (12 issues need help) 7 Updated Feb 6, 2025
  • community-module-registry Public

    Testcontainers Community Module Registry

    testcontainers/community-module-registry’s past year of commit activity
    19 36 0 8 Updated Feb 6, 2025
  • tc-guide-getting-started-with-testcontainers-for-nodejs Public
    testcontainers/tc-guide-getting-started-with-testcontainers-for-nodejs’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 8 MIT 4 1 0 Updated Feb 4, 2025
  • testcontainers-java Public

    Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

    testcontainers/testcontainers-java’s past year of commit activity
    Java 8,125 MIT 1,674 406 (23 issues need help) 331 Updated Feb 3, 2025
  • testcontainers-rs-modules-community Public

    Community maintained modules for Testcontainers for Rust

    testcontainers/testcontainers-rs-modules-community’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 114 MIT 51 6 (3 issues need help) 4 Updated Feb 3, 2025
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