“Python wrestling with the docker-compose squid”, by the author. The Python package testcontainers solves two problems common to Python-apps. We develop Python-based applications and deploy them using the AWS ECS-CLI. So we directly deploy a docker-compose configuration into AWS ECS. That configuration wants to be tested locally as well, and I haven’t found a proper solution for that other than the package testcontainers. If you don’t work with docker-compose but k8n or some other docker orchestrator, you for sure encounter the second use case. It’s to spin up a local container with Postgres, NGINX or Redis to run a small integration […]