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Overview

The trend across FOLIO is that teams are adopting testcontainers (https://www.testcontainers.org/) for build-time test infrastructure.  For example, RMB, OKAPI, and at least one other module have replaced embedded postgresql with testcontainers,  Also, we're starting to see modules which are adopting this for other pieces of infrastructure, e.g. kafka, elasticsearch(?), etc.  Given this trend, does FOLIO as a project want to embrace this and encourage teams to follow this approach?  For all build-time test infrastructure?  Only for specific pieces of infrastructure?  What about for UI modules?

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In short, it's used to start/stop docker containers.

Considerations

• It's apparently not possible to run docker simultaneously with vagrant (virtualization issue?)
  • See How to Use Testcontainers in Integration Tests 
• One of the drivers for this is that postgres-embedded lacks support for several prominent architectures in version >= postgres 11
• RMB now allows disabling test containers by specifying and external DB for running tests:

  Jira Legacy
  server System JiraJIRA serverId 01505d01-b853-3c2e-90f1-ee9b165564fc key RMB-826

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JIRAs

• Jira Legacy
  server System JiraJIRA serverId 01505d01-b853-3c2e-90f1-ee9b165564fc key FOLIO-1845

• Jira Legacy
  server System JiraJIRA serverId 01505d01-b853-3c2e-90f1-ee9b165564fc key OKAPI-825

• Jira Legacy
  server System JiraJIRA serverId 01505d01-b853-3c2e-90f1-ee9b165564fc key RMB-483

• Jira Legacy
  server System JiraJIRA serverId 01505d01-b853-3c2e-90f1-ee9b165564fc key FOLIO-3118

• Jira Legacy
  server System JiraJIRA serverId 01505d01-b853-3c2e-90f1-ee9b165564fc key RMB-826

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