New Testcontainers driver
alexeagle opened this issue · comments
Currently the available drivers either require a docker daemon running on the current machine, or have no container runtime at all.
TestContainers Cloud https://testcontainers.com/cloud/ is a nice way to get remote containers instead.
You can think of it a bit like RBE, but MUCH easier to scale out workloads.
I think it's pretty trivial for someone comfortable in Go to take the https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go library and make another file in the drivers/ folder here and wire it up.
@loosebazooka would you be okay approving such a contribution?
yeah
@thesayyn determined that this seems to be unneeded.
After setting up TestContainers Cloud, the client-side agent has created a ~/.testcontainers.properties file (e.g. by running https://github.com/AtomicJar/testcontainers-cloud-setup-action)
This file contains a tc.host property we can use to set DOCKER_HOST in the environment, and then the standard docker driver in this repo will work to use the remote container runtime.