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: Random failures on Redis Container when DinD + parallel Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#511 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 28, 2024
Bug: tc.host support issue - failing to connect to dockerd if tc.host is present Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#494 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2024
Bug: Ryuk fails to start due to port binding (colima, timing) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#486 · 18 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2024
what to do with DBContainer - split from removing sqlalchemy dependency Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#459 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 9, 2024
Bug: Mssql tests fail on machines with ARM CPU (Apple M1, M2) Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#453 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 8, 2024
RFC: 4.x releases Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#446 · 17 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2024
Feature: read OCI images from the disk without requiring a tarball Open

🚀 enhancement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#424 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 16, 2024
Investigate what to do about "localnpipe" on windows Open

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#415 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 23, 2024
DockerCompose start fails to start dockers, gives "got an unexpected keyword argument ssl_version" error in logs Open

🐛 bug 👀 requires attention 📦 package: compose

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#409 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Testcontainers work as expected, fail to map Docker port when run with pytest in VS Code Open

👀 requires attention 📦 package: kafka 🔀 requires triage

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#407 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 22, 2023
TypeError: object.__new__() takes exactly one argument (the type to instantiate) Open

👀 requires attention 🔀 requires triage

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#401 · 21 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2023
mongodb testcontainers cannot run in GitLab - while postgres can Open

🐛 bug 📦 package: mongodb 🔀 requires triage

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#386 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2023
Discussion: Officially supported version ranges Open

👀 requires attention 🔀 requires triage

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#373 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 25, 2023
Containers fail to start: mssql/win11, mssql/m1, mssql with different port (not intended to work), postgres/win10, mariadb/win11, oracle Open

👀 requires attention 🔀 requires triage

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#360 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 29, 2023
Bug: redis/windows: RedisContainer has no attributes '_container' Open

🐛 bug 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#327 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2023
docker.errors.NotFound: 404 Client Error when launching MongoDB on Ubuntu 22.04 running in WSL2. Open

👀 requires attention 🔀 requires triage

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#323 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 25, 2023
Add support for tmpfs mounts Open

📦 package: core 🚀 enhancement 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#316 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 8, 2023
Add windows build. Open

👀 requires attention 🚀 enhancement 🪟 windows

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#310 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 17, 2023
Add documentation to `DockerContainer` in `core`. Open

🐣 good first issue 👀 requires attention 📖 documentation 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#282 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 20, 2022
Creating a Postgres contrainer with an async driver fails Open

👀 requires attention 📦 package: postgres 🚀 enhancement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#263 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 8, 2022
Compose should use `compose_file_name=[]` or `None` by default Open

📦 package: compose

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#259 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2022
Clickhouse container exposing ports setup is strange Open

✅ close on merge 📦 package: clickhouse

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#257 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2022
Use SqlServerContainer with pyodbc driver Open

✅ close on merge 📦 package: mssql

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#244 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2022
Add a wait_for_healthcheck method to DockerCompose Open

👀 requires attention 📦 package: compose 🚀 enhancement 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#241 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 28, 2022
Provide generic DockerContainer with init attributes Open

✅ close on merge 📦 package: core 🚀 enhancement

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#236 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Update Docker Compose call when launching a Docker Compose command Open

✅ close on merge 📦 package: compose

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#226 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2022
Kafka - NoBrokerAvailable Open

👀 requires attention 📦 package: kafka

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#223 · 11 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2022
Installation with poetry and mssqlserver extra broken Open

✅ close on merge 📦 package: mssql

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 28/100

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#215 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 11, 2022
no -v option in docker-compose down Open

📦 package: compose 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#178 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2022
Improve DockerCompose documentation Open

🐣 good first issue 📖 documentation 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#165 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 14, 2021
Docker in Docker on Mac requires to use host.docker.internal Open

👀 requires attention 📦 package: core

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#159 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 29, 2021
Can't connect to PostgreSQL container from another container when running on Mac as host Open

🍏 macos 🐛 bug 👀 requires attention 📦 package: postgres

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#138 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 21, 2021
Allow option to keep the containers alive Open

🐣 good first issue 🤝 contributions are welcome 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#109 · 18 comments · 23 reactions · Opened Jul 16, 2020
could not translate host name "localnpipe" to address: Unknown host Open

🐛 bug 👀 requires attention 📦 package: postgres 🪟 windows

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#108 · 12 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jul 5, 2020
test is stuck at waiting and then times out : postgres container Open

🍏 macos 🐛 bug 👀 requires attention 📦 package: postgres 🪟 windows

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#101 · 3 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jun 10, 2020
MongoDbContainer on Windows 10 fails with getaddrinfo error Open

👀 requires attention 📦 package: mongodb 🪟 windows

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#99 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2020
Support for HTTP wait strategy Open

🚀 enhancement 🛟 help wanted

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

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#86 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2020
Dockerfile support Open

testcontainers/testcontainers-python#83 · 16 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 18, 2020

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