Podrick

Dynamically create and destroy containers for tests, within your Go application. Support for both Podman and Docker runtimes is built-in.

Inspired by dockertest.

Usage

package some_test

import (
	"net/http"
	"testing"

	"github.com/uw-labs/podrick"
	_ "github.com/uw-labs/podrick/runtimes/docker" // Register the docker runtime.
	_ "github.com/uw-labs/podrick/runtimes/podman" // Register the podman runtime.
)

func TestDatabase(t *testing.T) {
	ctx := context.Background()

	ctr, err := podrick.StartContainer(ctx, "kennethreitz/httpbin", "latest", "80")
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("Failed to start container: %v", err)
	}
	defer func() {
		err := ctr.Close(ctx) // Stops and removes the container.
		if err != nil {
			t.Error(err.Error())
		}
	}()

	// Use ctr.Address().
	resp, err = http.Get("http://" + ctr.Address() + "/get")
}

Podrick automatically selects a runtime if one isn't explicitly specified. This allows the user to use both podman and docker, depending on the support of the environment. It's also possible to explicitly specify which runtime to use, or use a custom runtime implementation.

Advanced usage

package some_test

import (
	"database/sql"
	"testing"

	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
	"github.com/uw-labs/podrick"
	"github.com/uw-labs/podrick/runtimes/podman"
	logrusadapter "logur.dev/adapters/logrus"
)

func TestDatabase(t *testing.T) {
	log := logrusadapter.New(logrus.New())
	ctx := context.Background()

	ctr, err := podrick.StartContainer(ctx, "cockroachdb/cockroach", "v19.1.3", "26257",
		podrick.WithUlimit([]podrick.Ulimit{{
			Name: "nofile",
			Soft: 1956,
			Hard: 1956,
		}}),
		podrick.WithCmd([]string{
			"start",
			"--insecure",
		}),
		podrick.WithLogger(log),
		// Use of the podman runtime only.
		// The environment variable PODMAN_VARLINK_ADDRESS
		// can be used to configure where podrick should
		// look for the varlink API.
		podrick.WithRuntime(&podman.Runtime{
			Logger: log,
		}),
		podrick.WithLivenessCheck(func(address string) error {
			_, err := http.Get("http://"+address+"/get")
			return err
		}),
	)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err.Error())
	}

	defer func() {
		err := ctr.Close(ctx)
		if err != nil {
			t.Error(err.Error())
		}
	}()

	db, err := sql.Open("postgres://root@" + ctr.Address() + "/defaultdb")
	// ... make database calls, etc
}

Using podrick in CI

While podrick makes it really easy to run tests locally on users machines, it can be challenging to run the tests in CI, since it requires the permission to run containers that are accessible to the local environment. Circle CI is the only environment confirmed to work well with podrick, both using podman and docker.

Circle CI

The podrick CI tests themselves illustrate how to use podrick with Circle CI. It requires the use of the machine executor type, and there is some setup required to get a recent Go version. Please see the CI files for concrete examples of this.

If you are using Circle CI with the docker runtime, it is obviously not necessary to install podman.