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
- OracleDb container
- PostgreSQL Db container
- Generic docker containers
The testcontainers module is available from PyPI at:
and can be installed using pip, depending on which containers you need:
pip install testcontainers[mysql]
pip install testcontainers[oracle]
pip install testcontainers[postgresql]
pip install testcontainers[selenium]
# or with multiple
pip install testcontainers[mysql,postgresql,selenium]
Database containers
Allows to spin up docker database images such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and Oracle XE.
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.