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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Container with new ImageFromDockerfile().withDockerfile(...) cause java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: group id '...' is too big ( > 2097151 ). Use STAR or POSIX extensions to overcome this limit Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4701 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2021
`BrowserWebDriverContainer` using Chrome fails on Windows 10 with `DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist` Open

client/docker-for-windows modules/selenium os/windows type/bug

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4696 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 24, 2021
`ImageFromDockerfile` not working when `withFileFromFile` and `withDockerfile` are used at the same time Open

type/bug

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4693 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 24, 2021
Starting docker-compose test containers as non-root user Open

area/docker-compose resolution/waiting-for-info type/question

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4688 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2021
Add r2dbc:tc TC_INITSCRIPT Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4687 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 19, 2021
Could not connect to Ryuk during running java tests via a docker container. Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4685 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 18, 2021
Unix domain sockets are not supported on Windows Open

os/windows resolution/waiting-for-info type/question

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4673 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2021
IllegalState Previous attempts to find a Docker environme when trying to build a simple docker image Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4666 · Opened Nov 9, 2021
[OracleContainer] Unable to execute statements which need system privileges Open

modules/jdbc resolution/acknowledged type/enhancement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4615 · 17 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2021
TC doesn't seem to pull the `selenium/standalone-firefox-debug` image Open

modules/selenium

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4608 · 11 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2021
Image Name Substitution not applied for DockerComposeContainers Open

area/docker-compose

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4605 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2021
Ability to specify the image pull policy in the DockerComposeContainer Open

area/docker-compose

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4601 · Opened Oct 22, 2021
Host override taken from property or env var Open

client/docker-for-windows resolution/waiting-for-info

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4572 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2021
Usage of `ImageFromDocker` not intuitive if `withDockerfile` is used Open

type/enhancement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4550 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 6, 2021
FileAlreadyExistsException thrown by MountableFile Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4539 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 4, 2021
Launching chrome on Windows 10 fails if SHM not specified Open

client/docker-for-windows modules/selenium os/windows resolution/acknowledged type/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4490 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2021
ContainerInfo Port bindings are NULL when upgrading to 1.16.0 Open

resolution/waiting-for-info

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4489 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2021
random java.lang.NullPointerException: networkMode was not specified Open

resolution/acknowledged resolution/waiting-for-info type/bug

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4483 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 28, 2021
Feature request: support `docker.io/*` images to use auth config from `~/.docker/config.json` Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4474 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2021
Container reuse across r2dbc:tc and jdbc:tc URLs Open

modules/jdbc modules/r2dbc resolution/acknowledged type/feature

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4473 · 7 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Sep 21, 2021
Reported Vulnerabilities from Transitive Dependencies Open

resolution/answered resolution/awaiting-release security type/question

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4456 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2021
NullPointerException in execInContainer for long running commands Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4453 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2021
TC tries to pull the image if dockerfile build fails Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4450 · Opened Sep 7, 2021
Socket from DOCKER_HOST not used if default socket exists. Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4400 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2021
[Containerd] IN_A_CONTAINER didn't set correctly in containers started up via containerd service Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4398 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2021
Container lifecycle management as Maven and Gradle plugins Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4397 · 4 comments · 181 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2021
Include docker-java-api in BOM Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4392 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2021
Solr container doesn't work with cloud (cluster) Solr client Open

modules/solr

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4389 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2021
Length of the recording is too long Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4380 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 18, 2021
Option to ignore ports in docker-compose files Open

area/docker-compose resolution/somedaymaybe type/feature

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4365 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 6, 2021
Timed out waiting for container port to open (localhost ports: [] should be listening) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4360 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2021
Requested port X is not mapped with jenkins kubernates dind Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4307 · 18 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 27, 2021
Allow configure docker-compose image version Open

area/docker-compose

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4296 · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2021
getContainerByServiceName expects an instance name Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4281 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 13, 2021
DockerComposeContainer - InvalidExitException stack trace and cause hidden Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4280 · Opened Jul 12, 2021
DB2 privileged mode is no longer required and should be removed Open

modules/jdbc type/enhancement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4267 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 5, 2021
Container stops on github environment: Error response from deamon: Container is not running Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4265 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2021
ImagePullPolicyTest fails on Docker for Windows with WSL2 backend Open

client/docker-for-windows os/windows type/test-improvement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4264 · Opened Jul 2, 2021
TESTCONTAINERS_HUB_IMAGE_NAME_PREFIX with docker-compose.yml Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4212 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Testcontainers is including shaded classes of Bouncycastle Open

area/shading type/housekeeping

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4211 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 21, 2021
MongoDBContainer doesn't start DB in --auth mode Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4200 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 15, 2021
Combine many dependabot PRs into one Open

type/housekeeping

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4172 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2021
"Unable to mount a file from test host into a running container" on Mac M1 Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4168 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2021
Since Docker 20.10.6: Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp6 Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4126 · 2 comments · Opened May 25, 2021
Timed out waiting for container port to open Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4125 · 23 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 25, 2021
`databasename` part of `jdbc:tc` URIs іs ignored when optional host:port pair is omitted Open

modules/jdbc resolution/acknowledged type/bug

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4121 · 10 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 24, 2021
Clickhouse setting config failed Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4120 · Opened May 22, 2021
Testcontainers build fails - MySQL, DB2, ... impacted by removal of TLS<1.2 in `adopt@1.11.0-11` Open

modules/jdbc type/test-improvement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#4058 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2021
Support capturing separate screen recording files specific to each test method when reusing a single instance of BrowserWebDriverContainer for multiple test methods Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3998 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2021
java.lang.ClassCircularityError Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-java#3997 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2021

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