testcontainers/testcontainers-python

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Testcontainers is a Python library that providing a friendly API to run Docker container. It is designed to create runtime environment to use during your automatic tests.

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Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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138 open issues indexed

Bug: file descriptor leak in HttpWaitStrategy Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1115 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Bug: Reaper reports success while the session filter never reaches Ryuk (silent leak on Linux/docker-proxy) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1114 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
TrinoContainer.get_connection_url() returns the internal port, not the mapped host port Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1111 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Bug: Failure to connect to Reaper leaves stale ryuk containers, leading to container name collisions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1093 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Updating the documentation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 67/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1086 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Bug: `docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: maximum recursion depth exceeded` since upgrade of 4.15 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1085 · Opened Jul 26, 2026
New Container: fake-gcs-server Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1084 · Opened Jul 25, 2026
New Container: Prometheus Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1075 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2026
Question: What are the new way to install community containers? Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1063 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 20, 2026
Feature: Ryuk support in ComposeContainer class (like in Java) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1049 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Question: Can HealthcheckWaitStrategy make use of the HEALTHCHECK defined on the image? Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1033 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2026
cosmosdb: CosmosDBNoSQLEndpointContainer doesn't work with vnext-preview emulator image Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1024 · 1 comment · Opened May 29, 2026
Question: Cannot start KafkaContainer() (on windows(?)) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1015 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 12, 2026
Docs: Improve docs with examples Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1014 · 2 comments · Opened May 8, 2026
Utilizing Ty astype checker (replacing mypy) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#1001 · Opened Apr 5, 2026
create before start issue Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#997 · 10 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 2, 2026
`localstack/localstack:latest` will require auth token from March 23 — LocalStack module docs & examples need updating Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#985 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2026
New Container: DatabricksContainer for Databricks SQL Connector Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#981 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 12, 2026
`ElasticSearchContainer` method `.get_url()` suggested in doc websites but not implemented anymore Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#980 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 9, 2026
New Container: InfluxDB v3 Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#974 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Feature: Timeout on command execution Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#972 · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Feature: Use pre-commit.ci Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#959 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 25, 2026
Feature: pytest integration Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#958 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 24, 2026
Docs: add doctests to mkdocs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#956 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 24, 2026
Docs: generate Sphinx documentation with all (public API) classes and members. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#955 · Opened Jan 24, 2026
New Container: Lowkey Vault Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#948 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2026
Feature: Temporary file volume mapping to dynamically generate generate the file content Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#937 · Opened Dec 9, 2025
Bug: Minio broken with `minio==7.2.19` Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#932 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Bug: Running `.exec` on `SqlServerContainer` instance hangs indefinitely Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#910 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Bug: DockerClient fails to start with auto-detected network and host bits set Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#907 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Bug: HealthcheckWaitStrategy returns error with DockerCompose Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#905 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Feature: other ways to configure than the `.testcontainers.properties` in Home Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#904 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2025
New Container: Vespa AI (Vector Database & Search Engine) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#902 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 12, 2025
New Container: n8n Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#901 · Opened Oct 11, 2025
remove commit_to_image from ollama container (move to base container?) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#887 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 1, 2025
New Container: vLLM Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#885 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2025
New Container: CrateDB Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#882 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Question: Can I cache a docker image Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#878 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2025
Bug: No link to new docs from this repo? Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#869 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Feature: Podman Kube Play support Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#868 · Opened Sep 2, 2025
Bug: `K3SContainer` does not support other connection modes (in `get_container_host_ip`) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#861 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2025
New Container: Solr Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#856 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Feature: Async OpenFGA Client Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#854 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Bug: Keycloak container fails with 'HTTPS required' Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#850 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 25, 2025
New Container: Temporal Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#844 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2025
Change RedpandaContainer startup script path Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#841 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2025
New Container: Spark Connect Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#825 · Opened Jun 8, 2025
Bug: SFTP Testcontainer Times out with default config / RSA key pair Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#820 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 4, 2025
Feature: ryuk should be able to use TCP socket to connect to Docker engine API Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#819 · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Feature: A way to construct a `Network` object for an existing docker network Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#816 · Opened May 21, 2025

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