[pgoggijr]

I've used this same approach as well. Testcontainers is a nice way to help with this!

https://www.testcontainers.org/

[JackFr]

I rolled my own with docker for a few years and recently made the switch to testcontainers. So far so good - but if you’re in an environment or language where test containers are difficult, rolling your own really it ant to hard. It also keeps you honest with maintaining good migration scripts.

[jve]

What is testcontainer? Reading the first page I don't understand what benefits it buys me:

> Testcontainers for .NET is a library to support tests with throwaway instances of Docker containers for all compatible .NET Standard versions. The library is built on top of the .NET Docker remote API and provides a lightweight implementation to support your test environment in all circumstances.

Edit: Ok, example helps. https://dotnet.testcontainers.org/examples/aspnet/

I can declare docker infrastructure from my code, right?

[therealdrag0]

Yep instead of starting the container in the build script it’s nice to start it in the test code file itself.