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Testcontainers for Infrastructure Testing
10.1What Testcontainers SolvesIntegration tests have a dependency problem. Your code talks to PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch -- but where do those services…10.2Core Concepts10.3Kafka with TestcontainersKafka is one of the most common use cases for Testcontainers. Running a real Kafka broker in your test suite eliminates the fragility of…10.4PostgreSQL with Testcontainers10.5Redis with Testcontainers10.6LocalStack for AWS Services10.7Best Practices1. Use scope="module" -- Starting containers is slow (2-10 seconds each). Share containers across tests in a module, not per-test.