Testcontainers Product Updates and Newsletter

October 2023

Tail logs and connect to a Testcontainers-based service

Testcontainers Desktop now lets you open a terminal and tail logs to any Testcontainers-based service. Both actions are available in the "services" menu.

October 30, 2023

Testcontainers Desktop Testcontainers Cloud

Open a terminal to your container runtime

Testcontainers Desktop now makes it easy to "open a terminal" to your container runtime, whether you rely on Testcontainers Cloud or run your containers locally. The docker context is set automatically.

October 27, 2023

Testcontainers Cloud

Manage Testcontainers Cloud access to your private registry

Testcontainers Cloud now lets you configure access to your private registry in the organization's "Settings" page. All desktop users and CI service accounts will automatically load the official configuration when they start, ensuring a turnkey experience.

October 13, 2023

Monthly Roundup

Testcontainers September Roundup

Hello! Welcome to our September Testcontainers newsletter. In this edition, we're thrilled to unveil some fantastic new Testcontainers Desktop and Cloud features, enhancements to our open-source libraries, new blog posts, and last but not least, we want to share details about our Champions program...

October 6, 2023

September 2023

Testcontainers Desktop

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

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Tail logs and connect to a Testcontainers-based service

Open a terminal to your container runtime

Manage Testcontainers Cloud access to your private registry

Testcontainers September Roundup

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

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