testcontainers 2.5

Library provides lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container

testcontainers-python

Python port for testcontainers-java that allows using docker containers for functional and/or integration testing.

Testcontainers-python provides capabilities to spin up a docker containers for test purposes would that be a database, Selenium web browser or any other cotainer.

Currently available features:

• Selenium Grid containers
• Selenium Standalone containers
• MySql Db container
• MariaDb container
• PostgreSQL Db container
• Generic docker containers

Quick start

Installation

The testcontainers module is available from PyPI at:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testcontainers

and can be installed using pip, depending on which containers you need:

pip install testcontainers[mysql]
pip install testcontainers[postgresql]
pip install testcontainers[selenium]
# or with multiple
pip install testcontainers[mysql,postgresql,selenium]

Basic usage

Database containers

Allows to spin up docker database images such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and Oracle XE.

MySQL example

    config = MySqlContainer('mysql:5.7.17')
    with config as mysql:
        e = sqlalchemy.create_engine(mysql.get_connection_url())
        result = e.execute("select version()")

It will spin up MySQL version 5.7. Then you can connect to database using get_connection_url() method which returns sqlalchemy compatible url in format dialect+driver://username:password@host:port/database.

Detailed documentation