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How to create a container

When I have to describe TestContainer I say: "it is a wrapper around the docker daemon designed for tests."

This libraries demands all the complexity of creating and managing container to Docker to stay focused on usability in a testing environment.

You can use this library to run everything you can run with docker:

• NoSQL databases or other data stores (e.g. redis, elasticsearch, mongo)
• Web servers/proxies (e.g. nginx, apache)
• Log services (e.g. logstash, kibana)
• Other services developed by your team/organization which are already dockerized

GenericContainer

testcontainers.GenericContainer identifies the ability to spin up a single container, you can look at it as a different way to create a docker run command.

func TestNginxLatestReturn(t *testing.T) {
    ctx := context.Background()
    req := testcontainers.ContainerRequest{
        Image:        "nginx",
        ExposedPorts: []string{"80/tcp"},
        WaitingFor:   wait.ForHTTP("/"),
    }
    nginxC, err := testcontainers.GenericContainer(ctx, testcontainers.GenericContainerRequest{
        ContainerRequest: req,
        Started:          true,
    })
    if err != nil {
        t.Error(err)
    }
    defer nginxC.Terminate(ctx)
    ip, err := nginxC.Host(ctx)
    if err != nil {
        t.Error(err)
    }
    port, err := nginxC.MappedPort(ctx, "80")
    if err != nil {
        t.Error(err)
    }
    resp, err := http.Get(fmt.Sprintf("http://%s:%s", ip, port.Port()))
    if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
        t.Errorf("Expected status code %d. Got %d.", http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)
    }
}

This test creates an Nginx container and it validates that it returns a 200 as StatusCode.