Feature request: support docker-compose files
Frankkkkk opened this issue · comments
Docker-compose is sometimes use to spin-up fully running environments (database, API, etc.).
Adding this functionality to tox-docker would be useful when testing modules that need an external environment running.
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As near as I can tell, docker-compose exists entirely as a command-line tool. While it's implemented in Python, and I believe we could probably figure out how to call into its internals in a similar way to what the CLI tool does, this is an unmaintainable path. Alternately, tox-docker could just shell out, but that's straightforward with commands_pre / commands_post supported by base tox without plugins.
Between when this was filed and now, tox-docker has grown a set of features that might make up for some of the gaps. It's not (and shouldn't be/never will be) as full-featured as compose, but it never intended to be. So, ultimately I think this feature is not going to happen in tox-docker.