testcontainers/testcontainers-java

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Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

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Dominant language: Java
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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412 open issues indexed

Bad KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS when exposing host ports to the container Open

modules/kafka

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3187 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2020
LogMessageWaitStrategy misses the required log lines when multiple containers are started Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3186 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2020
Missing constructor PostgreSQLContainer(Future<String> image) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3184 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2020
Docker compose with Citus images fails to start Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3179 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2020
Add ability to increase default timeout for BrowserWebDriverContainer when checking if it's started Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3161 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2020
conflicting options: port publishing and the container type network mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3160 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2020
DockerComposeContainer and reuse Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3158 · 3 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2020
Start Solr in standalone mode Open

modules/solr type/enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3135 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2020
MSSQL Server logs Prelogin Warning as part of wait strategy implementation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3079 · 21 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Aug 6, 2020
Support init scripts for `MongoDBContainer` without manually customizing the `WaitStrategy` Open

good first issue modules/mongodb type/feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3066 · 18 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 1, 2020
Improve logging when withReuse() is specified and a container cannot be reused. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3013 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2020
CouchbaseContainer does not support configuring the memory quotas Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3004 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2020
JdbcDatabaseContainer ignores set WaitStrategy Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2994 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 14, 2020
Socat failes after first testclass because it don't waits for docker compose service to be healthy Open

area/docker-compose resolution/acknowledged type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2981 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2020
Container start hangs intermittently during file transfer Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2964 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 2, 2020
Unable to run Testcontainers on Windows Server 2019 (LinuxKit installed, LCOW) Open

client/docker-for-windows help wanted os/windows resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2960 · 23 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2020
Fail when binding a non-existing file Open

resolution/somedaymaybe

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2955 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2020
DockerComposeContainer withExposedService default wait strategy fails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2886 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 17, 2020
LogMessageWaitStrategy does not work for compose based restarting containers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2881 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 16, 2020
Make it possible to use build docker image using BuildKit Open

resolution/acknowledged resolution/somedaymaybe

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2857 · 14 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jun 10, 2020
ImageFromDockerfile#withDockerfile can't be used with any other withFile* methods Open

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2771 · 9 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 20, 2020
BrowserWebDriverContainer does not start if shared memory not set under WSL2 Open

client/docker-for-windows resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2552 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 11, 2020
Unexpected behavior for database containers launched via JDBC URL scheme Open

stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2544 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 9, 2020
HttpWaitStrategy does not retry to re-validate ResponsePredicate Open

help wanted resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2516 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2020
SQL Server container improvements regarding licensing Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2496 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 31, 2020
Support container_name in docker-compose file Open

area/docker-compose good first issue help wanted resolution/somedaymaybe

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2472 · 15 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Mar 24, 2020
testcontainers 1.12.2 and up does not replace versions from .env Open

area/docker-compose resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2309 · 9 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Jan 29, 2020
Spring Boot Tests with JUnit5 Jupiter and Shared Containers Open

resolution/waiting-for-info

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2290 · 47 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Jan 26, 2020
Container.followOutput() leaks thread Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2276 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2020
Display name for GenericContainer Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2246 · 13 comments · Opened Jan 13, 2020
Stop waiting for port when container exited Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2225 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2020
OracleContainer needs further configuration Open

modules/jdbc resolution/acknowledged type/feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2215 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 28, 2019
GenericContainer#isHealthy throws NPE if the healthcheck is not set Open

resolution/acknowledged type/bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2205 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2019
Bind to localhost (127.0.0.1) instead of 0.0.0.0 where possible Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2133 · 9 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Dec 2, 2019
DockerComposeContainerWithBuildTest > performTest[removeMode = ALL] fails on GHA Open

resolution/acknowledged type/test-improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2124 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2019
Bearer authorization in HttpWaitStrategy Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2114 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 29, 2019
Allow default image customization without tags Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 39/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2100 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 25, 2019
Reusable container for different apps Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#2011 · Opened Oct 28, 2019
GenericContainer fails to start when exposing ports on certain OSes Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1978 · 13 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2019
Images used in modules should be be pulled by digest and not by tag Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1951 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2019
ElasticSearch with custom plugins Open

resolution/acknowledged type/question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1921 · 8 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 27, 2019
org.testcontainers:postgresql artifact name clashes with org.postgresql:postgresql Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1917 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 26, 2019
container.getContainerIpAddress() not working when run inside Docker with a host configured with TCP socket and not unix socket Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1914 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 25, 2019
Improve documentation to include JNA configuration capabilities Open

help wanted resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1910 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 24, 2019
Expose Network used by docker-compose Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1897 · 12 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 20, 2019
Some errors cause a NoClassDefFoundError and the real error is hidden Open

resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1872 · 4 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Sep 14, 2019
docker-compose files from two different locations Open

help wanted resolution/acknowledged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1863 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2019
MySQL: failure is reported as success Open

modules/jdbc resolution/acknowledged type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1846 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2019
Consider using GitHub Actions as a primary CI Open

resolution/acknowledged type/housekeeping

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1836 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2019
Please move static analysis dependencies in compileOnly scope Open

help wanted resolution/somedaymaybe type/feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1824 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2019

testcontainers/testcontainers-java

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