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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 8.2k 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 302

  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 3.9k 523

  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 205

  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 303

  6. testcontainers-rs testcontainers-rs Public

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

    Rust 833 146

Repositories

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  • testcontainers-rs-modules-community Public

    Community maintained modules for Testcontainers for Rust

    testcontainers/testcontainers-rs-modules-community’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 118 MIT 54 8 (3 issues need help) 3 Updated Mar 3, 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 3,877 MIT 523 90 (4 issues need help) 34 Updated Mar 2, 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 2,035 MIT 205 33 (13 issues need help) 9 Updated Mar 2, 2025
  • moby-ryuk Public

    Schedule Moby/Docker containers cleanup after specific delay.

    testcontainers/moby-ryuk’s past year of commit activity
    Go 206 MIT 36 6 10 Updated Mar 1, 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# 3,948 MIT 302 43 (3 issues need help) 20 Updated Mar 1, 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 8,151 MIT 1,680 404 (23 issues need help) 371 Updated Feb 27, 2025
  • 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.

    testcontainers/testcontainers-python’s past year of commit activity
    Python 1,704 Apache-2.0 303 92 (5 issues need help) 37 Updated Feb 26, 2025
  • community-module-registry Public

    Testcontainers Community Module Registry

    testcontainers/community-module-registry’s past year of commit activity
    19 38 0 3 Updated Feb 26, 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 18 6 (2 issues need help) 5 Updated Feb 24, 2025
  • testcontainers-rs Public

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

    testcontainers/testcontainers-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 833 Apache-2.0 146 17 (4 issues need help) 2 Updated Feb 19, 2025
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