Testcontainers Product Updates and Newsletter

September 2023

Adopt Testcontainers Desktop as your container runtime (beta)

Testcontainers Desktop now embeds a lightweight and fast runtime, optimized for Testcontainers usage, on macOS 11 or later. To get started, simply select the "Embedded Runtime" in the menu then run your tests as usual to initialize it.

September 29, 2023

Testcontainers Desktop

Clean up containers without manual docker commands

Testcontainers Desktop now includes a simple option to "Terminate containers" that cleans up all running Testcontainers-powered containers, while sparing other vanilla containers. This means you no longer need to remember a non-trivial `docker kill` command in the CLI when you would like to clean up reusable containers.

September 29, 2023

Testcontainers Cloud

Link your test sessions to your CI pipeline

Your dashboards now link to the workflow that triggered a test session, such as a CI pipeline or job. To get started, simply set the TCC_WORKFLOW_KEY and TCC_WORKFLOW_URL environment variables.

September 15, 2023

Testcontainers Cloud

Navigate from your CI to the test sessions in your dashboards

You can now quickly navigate to your Testcontainers Cloud dashboards via a direct link available in your logs and as a job summary in your GitHub Actions.

September 8, 2023

Monthly Roundup

Testcontainers August Roundup

Hey there! It's time for our August Testcontainers newsletter. This month, we officially announced that we are donating Testcontainers Cloud Desktop and its features to the community as a free Testcontainers Desktop application! In this roundup you'll learn more about it and our recent OSS news.

September 5, 2023

August 2023

Testcontainers Desktop Testcontainers Cloud

Inspect local test sessions in collaborative dashboards

Testcontainers Desktop now ensures that local container runtimes automatically power collaborative dashboards, as was already the case when running tests in the cloud.

August 25, 2023

Testcontainers Cloud

Avoid image pull delays in your CI (public beta)

For Testcontainers Cloud customers on a paid Team or Enterprise plan, container images now typically remain available in-between CI runs, leading to faster CI pipelines.

August 18, 2023

Testcontainers Desktop

Get started with popular technologies thanks to preconfigured services

Testcontainers Desktop now ships with 15+ preconfigured configuration files, including postgres, kafka, and many others. Simply rename a file from .example to a .toml extension to get started with the corresponding technology.

August 11, 2023

Testcontainers Desktop

Verify running services and spot configuration issues

With Testcontainers Desktop you can now open the services menu to verify at a glance which services are configured and the corresponding ports, as well as spot any service with a potential configuration issue.

August 4, 2023

Monthly Roundup

Testcontainers July Roundup

Hey there! It's time for our July Testcontainers newsletter. This month, we have amazing product updates for you! We released the Testcontainers Desktop application 🎉, which has a number of features that are useful for local development with Testcontainers...

August 1, 2023

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Adopt Testcontainers Desktop as your container runtime (beta)

Clean up containers without manual docker commands

Link your test sessions to your CI pipeline

Navigate from your CI to the test sessions in your dashboards

Testcontainers August Roundup

Inspect local test sessions in collaborative dashboards

Avoid image pull delays in your CI (public beta)

Get started with popular technologies thanks to preconfigured services

Verify running services and spot configuration issues

Testcontainers July Roundup

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